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Pleuronichthys ocellatus
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Pleuronichthys ocellatus

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Pleuronichthys verticalis
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Pleuronichthys ritteri
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Pleuronichthys ritteri

Pleuronichthys ritteri
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Pleuronichthys ritteri
Pleuronichthys
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Pleuronichthys
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Overview
Main identification features
  • eyes right side
  • dorsal fin origin blind side
  • lips with folds
  • ll: branch onto nape
PLEURONICHTHYS

TURBOTS

Eyes on right side; body widest in middle; mouth small; lips with transverse folds; teeth concentrated on blind side of mouth; rear edge of preopercle free and visible; origin of dorsal on body under blind side; pelvics symmetrically arranged; lateral line straight on body, with branch onto nape and along front half of back under dorsal fin.

A temperate to subtropical genus with 8 species, found in the northeast and northwest Pacific; with 3 temperate eastern Pacific species entering the northern fringe of our region.


References
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  • Eschmeyer , W. N. , Herald , E. S. and Hamman, H., 1983., A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Peterson Field Guide Ser. 28., Houghton Mifflin:336pp.
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  • González Navarro , E. and Saldierna Martínez, R., 1997., Zooplancton de la Bahía de La Paz, B.C.S. (1990-1991). En Urbán Ramírez, J. y M. Ramírez Rodríguez (Eds.). La Bahía de La Paz investigación y conservación., Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur:43-58.
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  • Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1898., The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:2183-3136.
  • Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1880., Description of a new flounder (Pleuronichthys verticalis), from the coast of California, with Notes on other Species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 3:49-51.
  • Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1880., Notes on a collection of fishes from San Diego, California., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 3:23-34.
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