The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·229837SpeciesActinopterygii159 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Ray-finned Fishes
  5. ›Spiny-rayed fishes
  6. ›Jacks, Flounders, Barracudas, and Allies
  7. ›Flatfishes
  8. ›Righteye Flounders
  9. ›Hippoglossinae
  10. ›Reinhardtius
Greenland Halibut
Plate 1 of 5. (c) Jean-François Rousseau, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jean-François Rousseau · via iNaturalist
IUCN NT · Near threatened

Greenland Halibut

Reinhardtius hippoglossoides

The Greenland halibut or Greenland turbot (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides) belongs to the Pleuronectidae family (the right eye flounders), and is the only species of the genus Reinhardtius. It is a deep water fish, ranging between about 200 and 1,600 m (700 and 5,200 ft), and is found in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Reinhardtius hippoglossoides in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 229837.