Bering flounder
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| Bering flounder | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Not evaluated
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Genus: | Hippoglossoides |
| Species: | H. robustus |
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| Hippoglossoides robustus (Gill & Townsend, 1897) |
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The Bering flounder, Hippoglossoides robustus, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of up to 425 metres (1,390 ft). It reaches up to 30 centimetres (12 in) in length. Its native habitat is the northern Pacific, from Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk across the Bering Sea to Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Canada's Arctic coast.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "Hippoglossoides robustus". Fishbase. 5 June 2009. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=4240. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
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