Freshwater Fishes of Iran, Species Accounts

Freshwater Fishes of Iran

Species Accounts - Scophthalmidae

Revised: 26 June 2007

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Genus Psetta
Swainson, 1839

Psetta maxima
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Introduced to the Soviet Caspian Sea basin as the subspecies Psetta maxima maeotica (Pallas, 1811) in 1930-1931 but not subsequently observed. The introduction probably failed because the pelagic eggs were not buoyant at the low Caspian salinities (Baltz, 1991). No Iranian record.

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