Species: Lyopsetta exilis

Slender Sole
Species
Fishes
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Fishes of Puget Sound and adjacent waters
Fishes of the Salish Sea

Articles:

Paper: Shifts in the estuarine demersal fish community after a fishery closure in Puget Sound, Washington

This paper looks at 21 years of data on estuarine demersal fish in Puget Sound, assessing changes in population after the closure of bottom trawl fisheries.

Rock Sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata); image courtesy Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Pleuronectiformes

Family

Pleuronectidae

Genus

Lyopsetta

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ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101819
Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Other Bony Fishes
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Pleuronectiformes - Pleuronectidae - Lyopsetta
Habitat Type Description
Marine
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
NatureServe Global Status Rank
GNR
Conservation Status Map
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