BREAKING NEWS
Cloud Server Hosting For Online Businesses
Inexpensive SEO Services
Benefits of Wanting to play Free Online Slot machines
Diamond turbot

Summary

The diamond turbot (Hypsopsetta guttulata) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives in subtropical waters on sand or mud bottoms at depths of up to 50 metres (160 ft), though it is most commonly found between 1 and 20 metres (3.3 and 65.6 ft). Its native habitat is the coastal areas of the eastern Pacific, from Cape Mendocino, California in the north to Baja California in Mexico in the south. The turbot is dark green with light blue spots. It reaches up to 46 centimetres (18 in) in length, and its maximum reported lifespan is 9 years.[2]

Diamond turbot
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Pleuronectidae
Genus: Hypsopsetta
Species:
H. guttulata
Binomial name
Hypsopsetta guttulata
(Girard, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Pleuronichthys guttulatus Girard, 1856
  • Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862

Diet edit

The diamond turbot feeds almost entirely during daylight, and its diet consists of benthos invertebrates such as polychaetes, molluscs and shrimps.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ van der Heiden, Lea, B. & Findley, L. (2010). "Pleuronichthys guttulatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T183514A8126281. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T183514A8126281.en. Retrieved 24 March 2018.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Ed. Rainer Froese & Daniel Pauly (15 July 2009). "Hypsopsetta guttulata". Fishbase. Retrieved 2009-10-28.

Further reading edit

  • Haaker, Peter L.; Lane, E. David (March 5, 1973). "Frequencies of Anomalies in a Bothid, Paralichthys californicus, and a Pleuronectid, Hypsopsetta guttulata, Flatfish". Copeia. 1973 (1): 22–5. doi:10.2307/1442352. JSTOR 1442352.
  • Schinske, Jeffrey N.; Bernardi, Giacomo; Jacobs, David K.; Routman, Eric J. (2010). "Phylogeography of the diamond turbot (Hypsopsetta guttulata) across the Baja California Peninsula". Marine Biology. 157 (1): 123–134. doi:10.1007/s00227-009-1302-2. PMC 3873029. PMID 24391239.
  • Eldridge, Maxwell B. (1975). "Early Larvae of the Diamond Turbot, Hypsopsetta guttulata" (PDF). California Fish and Game. 61 (1): 26–34.