| Butter sole | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Subfamily: | Pleuronectinae |
| Genus: | Isopsetta Lockington, 1883 |
| Species: | I. isolepis
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| Binomial name | |
| Isopsetta isolepis (Lockington, 1880)
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The butter sole (Isopsetta isolepis) is an edible flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on soft, silty bottoms in temperate waters at depths between 20 and 425 m (66 and 1,394 ft). Its native habitat is the northeastern Pacific, from the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands, along the coasts of Alaska, Canada, and the USA as far south as Ventura, California. It grows up to 55 cm (22 in) in length, and can live for up to 11 years.[1]
- ^ Rainer Froese; Daniel Pauly, eds. (5 June 2009). "Isopsetta isolepis". Fishbase. Retrieved 2009-06-24.