Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)

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Subject:	Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
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Halibut (1); Turbot (2)
Subject: Halibut, Turbot
Tag: Fish
Date 1866
Author Robert Hamilton (1794–1868)
Source/Photographer
English: Robert Hamilton (1866) British Fishes, Part II, Naturalist's Library, vol. 37, London: Chatto and Windus
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_36430_Halibut_(1);_Turbot_(2).jpeg

The Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. Atlantic halibuts are demersal fish living on or near sand, gravel or clay bottoms. The native habitat of Hippoglossus hippoglossus is the temperate and arctic waters of the northern Atlantic.

The turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The turbot is a large left-eyed flatfish found primarily close to shore in sandy shallow waters.

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