Turbot (Rhombus maximus)

Subject: Greenland halibut, Turbot
Tag: Fish
Date 1904
Author Reinhold Thiele (1856–1921)
Source/Photographer
English: Aflalo, F. G. (1904) British Salt-Water Fishes, London: Hutchinson & Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_51245_Turbot_(Rhombus_maximus).jpeg

The turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The turbot is a large left-eyed flatfish found primarily close to shore in sandy shallow waters.