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Pleuronectidae
New Zealand turbot
Colistium nudipinnis
Pleuronectid Fish in Southwest Pacific
- Temperate
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
LargeNew Zealand turbot is known from Southwest Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Colistium
- Maximum length
- 90 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Southwest Pacific: occurs only around New Zealand.
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