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turbot
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thumb|Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO The turbot ( ), Scophthalmus maximus, is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important food fish. Turbot in the Black Sea were often included in this species, but are now generally regarded as separate: the Black Sea turbot or kalkan (S. maeoticus). T
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The turbot, scientifically named *Scophthalmus maximus*, is a species of fish within the family Scophthalmidae. It belongs to the order Pleuronectiformes, class Teleostei, and phylum Chordata. The species was described by Linnaeus in 1758 and is also referred to by the common names tarbot, Steinbutt, and piikkikampela. Its taxonomic status is accepted.
This organism inhabits marine and brackish environments. It is classified as a type of seafood. According to the IUCN Red List, its global conservation status is Least Concern, a designation recorded in 2021. However, its regional conservation status is listed as Near Threatened.
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Species
Least Concernturbot
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPleuronectiformes
- FamilyScophthalmidae
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- seafood
- Parent taxon
- Scophthalmus
- Image
- Rodaballo, Galiza.jpg
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- species
- Commons category
- Scophthalmus maximus
- taxon name
- Scophthalmus maximus
- Commons gallery
- Scophthalmus maximus
- MCN code
- 0302.24.00
- taxon common name
- rodaballu
- sequenced genome URL
- www.ensembl.org/Scophthalmus_maximus
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- short name
- S. maximus
- regional conservation status
- Near Threatened
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Fisheries
- References
- External links
thumb|Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO The turbot ( ), Scophthalmus maximus, is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important food fish. Turbot in the Black Sea were often included in this species, but are now generally regarded as separate: the Black Sea turbot or kalkan (S. maeoticus). True turbot are not found in the Northwest Atlantic; the "turbot" of that region, which was involved in the so-called "Turbot War" between Canada and Spain, is the Greenland halibut or Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides). The name turbot can refer to any member of the family Scolopthalmidae, and some other flatfish have similar common names (e.g., spiny turbots of the genus Psettodes).
==Etymology==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “turbot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.