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Scophthalmidae
turbot
Scophthalmus maximus
Eye side covered in bony tubercles
- Temperate
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Europe
- Polar regions
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Deep-bodied
Largeturbot is known from Northeast Atlantic as a freshwater fish. It occurs in freshwater habitats.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Scophthalmidae
- Genus
- Scophthalmus
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Northeast Atlantic: throughout the Mediterranean and along the European coasts to Arctic Circle; also found in most of the Baltic Sea. Subspecies Psetta maxima maeotica in the Black Sea.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
