Yellow striped flounder (Pseudopleuronectes herzensteini)

Scientific name: Pseudopleuronectes herzensteini Jordan & Snyder, 1901

The Yellow striped flounder (Pseudopleuronectes herzensteini) is a marine fish of the family Pleuronectidae.

Species facts

Scientific name
Pseudopleuronectes herzensteini
Family
Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders)
Order
Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
50.0
Common length
28.5
Environment
Marine; demersal
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
Northwest Pacific: inland Sea of Japan and Wakasa Bay, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Primorskii Krai, east coast of the Korean Peninsula, the Yellow Sea, Gulf of Bo Hai and middle East China Sea.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: highly commercial
Resilience
Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.2)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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