Paralichthys californicus (Ayres 1859)
- 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
- Paralichthyidae
- genus
- Paralichthys
- species
- Paralichthys californicus
description
California Halibut. To 152 cm (5 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Quillayute River, northern Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Cabo Falsa (22 ° 50 ’ N), southern Baja California (Martinez Muñoz and Ramírez-Cruz 1992). Also reported from upper Gulf of California near Sonora (Grijalva-Chon et al. 1996), but without documentation. Marine and brackish waters (Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 317 m (1,040 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: Bradburn et al. 2011).