What is "spotted turbot"

Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n.

1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3) b . [In this sense, written also window pane.]

2. (Zo["o]l.) A thin, spotted American turbot ( Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.

The Spotted turbot, Pleuronichthys ritteri, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of between . Its native habitat is the subtropical waters of the Eastern Pacific, from Morro Bay in California to southern Baja California in Mexico. It can grow up to in length.