[5] The thickback sole occurs in the northeast Atlantic, from Great Britain and Ireland south to the Baie du Lévrier in Senegal, they are also found around Madeira.

[1] on the continental shelf and slope, at depths between 80–400 m. It feeds on a wide range of small benthic organisms, largely crustaceans such as amphipods and shrimp, also polychaetes and bivalves.

[6] The young thickback sole develop in open-sea nurseriesand settle into a benthic mode at a relatively young age compared to common sole and this may be why they are rarely recorded in coastal waters.

[7] The thickback sole is not utilized in fisheries in the central eastern Atlantic but in the Mediterranean it is a commercially exploited species and is regularly observed in markets in Morocco, the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Adriatic Sea.

The commercial fisheries for thickback sole in the Mediterranean uses trawls, gill and trammel nets.