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Related FAQs: Flatfishes Flatfish Overview: Pleuronectiform Fishes /The Conscientious Marine Aquarist Flatfishes of the Family Paralichthyidae: Flounders, Halibuts and more. | | Bob Fenner | |
Marine, some rarely in freshwater. Usually left handed/eyed. Have pelvic fin bases that are short, pectoral fin rays branched. Eggs with only a single oil globule (diagnostic character). About sixteen genera, eighty five species. Polyphyletic. | Paralichthys californicus (Ayres 1859), the California Flounder (Halibut). Eastern Pacific; Washington to Baja California. Recorded to more than five feet and 33 kg. in weight. This twenty pound or so one at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. | 
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