Hornyhead turbot

The hornyhead turbot (Pleuronichthys verticalis) is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on soft sand and mud bottoms at depths of between 9 and 200 metres (30 and 656 ft). Its native habitat is the subtropical waters of the eastern Pacific, from Point Reyes in California to Magdalena Bay in Baja California Sur, and the northern and central eastern parts of the Gulf of California. It can grow up to 37 centimetres (15 in) in length.^[1][2]

Hornyhead turbot
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Genus:	Pleuronichthys
Species:	P. verticalis
Binomial name
Pleuronichthys verticalis D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880
Distribution of hornyhead turbot

Diet

The diet of the hornyhead turbot consists mainly of zoobenthos organisms, including amphipods, polychaetes^[2] and clam siphons.