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Related FAQs: Flatfishes
Flatfish Overview: Pleuronectiform
Fishes
/The Conscientious
Marine Aquarist
Flatfishes
of the Family Paralichthyidae: Flounders, Halibuts and more.
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Bob Fenner |
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Marine, some rarely in freshwater. Usually left handed/eyed. Have pelvic fin
bases that are short, pectoral fin rays branched. Eggs with only a single oil
globule (diagnostic character). About sixteen genera, eighty
five species. Polyphyletic.
| Paralichthys californicus (Ayres 1859), the
California Flounder (Halibut). Eastern Pacific; Washington to Baja
California. Recorded to more than five feet and 33 kg. in weight. This
twenty pound or so one at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. |
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