''Hypsopsetta'' is a
genus
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of
righteye flounders native to the
Pacific coast of
California
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and the
Baja California peninsula, as well as the
Gulf of California
The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Bermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja Ca ...
.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Hypsopsetta guttulata''
( Girard, 1856) (Diamond turbot)
* ''
Hypsopsetta macrocephala''
Breder, 1936
References
Pleuronectidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Theodore Gill
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