Windowpane flounder
| Windowpane flounder | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Scophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Scophthalmus |
| Species: | S. aquosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815) | |
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Windowpane flounder (Scophthalmus aquosus) is a fish species in the family Scophthalmidae. Widespread on the depth of 55-73 meters in the Western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to Florida in the USA. An important commercial species, they can grow up to 45.7 cm in length, and live up to 7 years.
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