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Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Hippoglossus
Where to Find
Found in 5 diving areas across 3 countries and 2 regions.
- West Coast (Gothenburg), Sweden - 69 records
- Cornwall & Devon, United Kingdom - 3 records
- Scapa Flow, Orkney, United Kingdom - 25 records
- New Brunswick & Bay of Fundy, Canada - 214 records
- Nova Scotia, Canada - 486 records