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Shotted halibut

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Pleuronectidae

Genus
  
Eopsetta

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Pleuronectiformes

Subfamily
  
Pleuronectinae

Scientific name
  
Eopsetta grigorjewi

Higher classification
  
Eopsetta

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Similar
  
Pleuronectidae, Flatfish, Blackfin flounder, Pseudopleuronectes obscurus, Longhead dab

The shotted halibut, Eopsetta grigorjewi, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on sandy mud bottoms in the sublittoral zone at depths of between 60 metres (200 ft) and 1,325 metres (4,347 ft). It can reach 60 centimetres (24 in) in length. Its native habitat is the Western Pacific, stretching from the Pacific coast of Japan in the north, through the east cost of Korea, down the coast of China and the Yellow Sea, as far as Taiwan in the south.

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Shotted halibut Wikipedia