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Species
Near Threatenedblack halibut
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPleuronectiformes
- FamilyPleuronectidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Reinhardtius
- Image
- Reinhardtius hippoglossoides.jpg
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- taxon name
- Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
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- Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
- taxon common name
- blåkveite
- MCN code
- 0302.21.00
- Commons category
- Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- short name
- R. hippoglossoides
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Encyclopedic overview
The Greenland halibut or Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) belongs to the family Pleuronectidae (the right-eye flounders), and is the only species of the genus Reinhardtius. It is a predatory fish that mostly ranges at depths between 500 and 1,000 m (1,600–3,300 ft), and is found in the cold northern Atlantic, northern Pacific, and Arctic Oceans.
It has a variety of other English vernacular names, including black halibut, blue halibut, lesser halibut, and Newfoundland turbot; while both Newfoundland turbot and Greenland turbot are in common use in North America (sometimes even without the location, just "turbot"), these names are typically not used in Europe, where they can cause easy confusion with the true turbot (Scophthalmus maximus).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greenland halibut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.