| Windowpane flounder | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Scophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Scophthalmus |
| Species: | S. aquosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815) |
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Windowpane flounder (Scophthalmus aquosus) is a fish species in the family Scophthalmidae. Widespread on the depth of 55-73 m in the Western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to Florida in USA. Important commercial species, up to 45.7 cm length, lives up to 7 years.