Diamond turbot

Diamond turbot
Conservation status
Not evaluated
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Pleuronectiformes
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Genus:	Hypsopsetta
Species:	H. guttulata
Binomial name
Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856)

The diamond turbot, Hypsopsetta guttulata, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives in subtropical waters on sand or mud bottoms at depths of up to 50 metres (160 ft), though it is most commonly found between 1 and 20 metres (3.3 and 65.6 ft). Its native habitat is the coastal areas of the eastern Pacific, from Cape Mendocino, California in the north to Baja California in Mexico in the south. The turbot is dark green with light blue spots. It reaches up to 46 centimetres (18 in) in length, and its maximum reported lifespan is 9 years.^[1]

Diet

The diamond turbot feeds almost entirely during daylight, and its diet consists of benthos invertebrates such as polychaetes, molluscs and shrimps.^[1]

References

1. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly (15 July 2009). "Hypsopsetta guttulata". Fishbase. Retrieved 2009-10-28.

Further reading

• Haaker, Peter L.; Lane, E. David (March 5, 1973). "Frequencies of Anomalies in a Bothid, Paralichthys californicus, and a Pleuronectid, Hypsopsetta guttulata, Flatfish". Copeia 1973 (1): 22–5. doi:10.2307/1442352. JSTOR 1442352.
• Schinske, Jeffrey N.; Bernardi, Giacomo; Jacobs, David K.; Routman, Eric J. (2010). "Phylogeography of the diamond turbot (Hypsopsetta guttulata) across the Baja California Peninsula". Marine Biology 157: 123–134. doi:10.1007/s00227-009-1302-2. PMC 3873029. PMID 24391239.
• Eldridge, Maxwell B. (1975). "Early Larvae of the Diamond Turbot, Hypsopsetta guttulata" (PDF). California Fish and Game 61 (1): 26–34.