turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)

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turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)

Abnormal Young Turbot

Rhombus maximus = Scophthalmus maximus (Linnaeus, 1758)
English: Semi-albinistic wrong-sided Turbot juvenile at 44 mm length.
Right (upper) side
Left (lower) side
Date 1907
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (vol. 1907 issue 1, plate XI)
Author J.T.Cunningham (Joseph Thomas Cunningham, 1859–1935)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PZSL1907Plate11.png

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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