Help with Homework: Fish
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update November 22, 1998
Jeanne.
Fish Illustrations by Kumataro Ito at the Smithsonian
California Halibut
Northwest SalmonKumatro Ito's illustrations are indeed spectacular. Visit the Smithsonian at the National Museum of Natural History to see more of Ito's illustrations and to discover more about Xyrichtys pentadactylus. And many thanks to both the artist and the Smithsonian for allowing us to use the picture.
Here's a school site on Salmon. Lots of information and art.
Here's an example of what you would find by searching Encyclopedia Britannica On Line:
any of various flatfishes (order Pleuronectiformes), especially the large and valuable Atlantic and Pacific halibuts of the genus Hippoglossus. Both, as flatfishes, have the eyes and colour on one side of the body, and both, as members of the family Pleuronectidae, usually have these features on the right side. . . .
Other edible flatfishes known as halibut include the Greenland halibut, also of the family Pleuronectidae, and the California halibut, of the family Bothidae. . . . The California halibut (Paralichthys californicus) is found along the California coast and is gray brown with a maximum length of about 1.5 metres and weight of 27 kilograms. Other members of its family are normally left-sided, but P. californicus may have its eyes and colour on either side.
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"halibut" Britannica Online.
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