Editing Turbot (section)

{{Short description|Species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae}}
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{{Speciesbox
| name = Turbot
| image = Psetta_maxima_Luc_Viatour.jpg
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Cardinale, M. |author2=Chanet, B. |author3=Martínez Portela, P. |author4=Munroe, T.A. |author5=Nimmegeers, S. |author6=Shlyakhov, V. |author7=Turan, C. |author8=Vansteenbrugge, L. |date=2021 |title=''Scophthalmus maximus'' |volume=2021 |page=e.T198731A144939322 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T198731A144939322.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Scophthalmus maximus
| authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
| synonyms = {{collapsible list|
* ''Pleuronectes cyclops'' <small>[[Edward Donovan|Donovan]], 1806</small>
* ''Pleuronectes maximus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
* ''Pleuronectes turbot'' <small>[[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacepède]], 1802</small>
* ''Psetta maxima'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
* ''Psetta maxima maxima'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
* ''Rhombus aculeatus'' <small>[[Carl Moritz Gottsche|Gottsche]], 1835</small>
* ''Rhombus magnus'' <small>Minding, 1832</small>
* ''Rhombus maximus'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
* ''Rhombus stellosus'' <small>[[Edward Turner Bennett|Bennett]], 1835</small>
* ''Scophthalmus ponticus'' <small>Ninni, 1932</small>
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[[File:Turbot total production thousand tonnes 1950-2022.svg|thumb|Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of turbot (''Scophthalmus maximus'') in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the [[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fisheries and Aquaculture - Global Production |url=https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/collection/global_production?lang=en |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)}}</ref>]]
The '''turbot''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɜr|b|ə|t|}} {{respell|TUR|bət}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/turbot |title=turbot |publisher=dictionary.reference.com }}</ref>) ''Scophthalmus maximus'' is a relatively large species of [[flatfish]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Scophthalmidae]]. It is a [[demersal fish]] native to [[marine (ocean)|marine]] or [[brackish]] waters of the Northeast Atlantic, [[Baltic Sea]] and the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. It is an important food fish.<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase | genus=Psetta | species=maxima | year=2019 | month=December }}</ref> Turbot in the [[Black Sea]] were often included in this species, but are now generally regarded as separate &ndash; the [[Black Sea turbot]] or kalkan (''S. maeoticus'').<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Scophthalmus| month = December | year = 2019}}</ref> True turbot are not found in the Northwest Atlantic; the "turbot" of that region, which was involved in the so-called "[[Turbot War]]" between Canada and Spain, is the [[Greenland halibut]] or Greenland turbot (''Reinhardtius hippoglossoides'').<ref>{{cite book | author=Stephens, T. | year=2009 | title=International Courts and Environmental Protection | pages=212–214 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-88122-7 }}</ref>