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Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 154473

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Scophthalmidae (Family) > Psetta (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Scophthalmus maximus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Psetta Swainson, 1839 accepted as Scophthalmus Rafinesque, 1810
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian shkotra  [details]
Bulgarian Черноморски калкан  [details]
Danish pighvarre  [details]
Dutch tarbot  [details]
English turbot  [details]
Finnish piikkikampela  [details]
German Steinbutt  [details]
Icelandic sandhverfa  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σιάκι  [details]
Norwegian piggvar  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål piggvar  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk piggvar  [details]
Polish skarp  [details]
Polish turbot  [details]
Portuguese pregado  [details]
Portuguese rodovalho  [details]
Russian tyurbo  [details]
Spanish rodaballo  [details]
Swedish piggvar  [details]
All child
taxa
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Subspecies Psetta maxima maeotica (Pallas, 1814) accepted as Scophthalmus maeoticus (Pallas, 1814)
Subspecies Psetta maxima maxima (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Scophthalmus maximus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Zeeschelde [details]
Host of  Acanthochondria cornuta (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus sieboldi von Nordmann, 1832 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus pectoralis (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus thompsoni Baird, 1850 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets
To FishBase
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Psetta maxima
Psetta maxima
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Gilson (1921, fig. 70)
Gilson (1921, fig. 70)
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Olsen (1883, kaart 41)
Olsen (1883, kaart 41)
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Poll (1947, fig. 241)
Poll (1947, fig. 241)
added on 2008-08-13 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947)
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Psetta maxima
Psetta maxima
added on 2008-12-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Tarbot
Tarbot
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Tarbot
Tarbot
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Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Hillewaert, Hans
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Psetta maxima
Psetta maxima
added on 2011-03-04 - author: VLIZ (Decleer)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154473
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-18 08:19:08Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
2012-03-08 06:57:52Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154473 on 2013-05-24
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