Windowpane flounder
Encyclopedia
Windowpane flounder is a fish
species
in the family
Scophthalmidae
. Widespread on the depth of 55-73 m in the Western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada
to Florida
in USA. Important commercial species, up to 45.7 cm length, lives up to 7 years.
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Scophthalmidae
Scophthalmidae
Scophthalmidae is a family of flatfish which includes the turbot. It contains ten species in four genera.-Species:-References: Species List . Accessed at 2 May 2009. taxon at http://www.eol.org....
. Widespread on the depth of 55-73 m in the Western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
to Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
in USA. Important commercial species, up to 45.7 cm length, lives up to 7 years.