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Pleuronectidae
Pacific halibut
Hippoglossus stenolepis
Older fish winter deep then return shallow in summer
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- North America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
LargePacific halibut is a migratory fish of North Pacific. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 258 cm. Its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Hippoglossus
- Maximum length
- 258 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North Pacific: Hokkaido, Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk to the southern Chukchi Sea and Point Camalu, Baja California, Mexico.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
