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Pleuronectidae
northern rock sole
Lepidopsetta polyxystra
Pleuronectid Fish beneath the Pacific Ocean
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- North America
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Largenorthern rock sole is known from North Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Lepidopsetta
- Maximum length
- 69 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- North Pacific: Puget Sound, Washington (USA) through the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to the Kuril Islands; overlapping with L. bilineata from the extreme SE Bering Sea to Puget Sound; and with L. mochigarei in the southern Sea of Okhotsk.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
