Leopard Flounder

Scientific Name: Bothus pantherinus
Species: Flounders (Bothidae)
Other names: Flatfish, Lefteye Flounders, Panther Flounder.

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Description

Also known as Flatfish, Lefteye Flounders and Panther Flounder.

(Named because the right eye has migrated to the left side of the body)
This highly compressed fish is found partially buried, in or on the sand of lagoons, bays and sheltered reefs.
They feed on small fish, invertebrates and worms.
Length - 30cm
Depth - 6-60m
Widespread Indo-Pacific

Flatfish, Soles and Flounders are placed in their families by location of their eyes. Their are both left eye and right eye dominant families.
Flatfish bury themselves in sand to hide from predators and use their eyes as periscopes as these can rotate 180 degrees.
During pelagic larval stage these fish are not flat but become so as they grow, their bodies flatten, and one eye migrates across the head next to the other eye.

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The Leopard Flounder has been photographed 13 times by user @fishx6

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