Pleuronichthys verticalis Jordan & Gilbert 1880
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Pleuronectiformes
- family
- Pleuronectidae
- genus
- Pleuronichthys
- species
- Pleuronichthys verticalis
description
Hornyhead Turbot or Sharpridge Flounder. To 36.8 cm (14.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Oregon (Kramer et al. 1995) to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972); isolated population in Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: 5 – 496 m (16 – 1,627 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Bradburn et al. 2011).