Shotted halibut
Eopsetta grigorjewi
- Usual depth33–200 m
- Water temperature13–20 °C
- Best monthsJuly
- How commonRare
Photo credit: (c) https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.843.32410, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
About this species
The shotted halibut is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on sandy mud bottoms in the sublittoral zone at depths of between 60 metres (200 ft) and 1,325 metres (4,347 ft). It can reach 60 centimetres (24 in) in length. Its native habitat is the Western Pacific, stretching from the Pacific coast of Japan in the north, through the east coast of Korea, down the coast of China and the Yellow Sea, as far as Taiwan in the south.
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Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 0 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 1 records
- July: 13 records
- August: 2 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 3 records
- November: 2 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 33–200 m · Deepest record: 225 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 13–20 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Shotted halibut, mushigarei, roundnose flounder, shothole flounder
Names in 3 more languages
- Japanese
- Mushi-garei, Mushigarei, ムシガレイ
- Korean
- 물가자미
- Simplified Chinese
- 格氏蟲鰈, 蟲鰈
Other scientific names: Hippoglossus grigorjewi, Verasper otakii, Xystrias grigorjewi
Similar species
- Kamchatka flounder
Atheresthes evermanni
- Korean flounder
Glyptocephalus stelleri
Roughscale soleClidoderma asperrimum
- Pointhead flounder
Cleisthenes pinetorum
- migigarei
Dexistes rikuzenius
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 58 open-data records from 1900 to 2021.
- Species data updated November 2, 2026.
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