Description

Also known as Flounder, Sand Flounder, Summer Flounder, Southern Flounder.

Found singly, on mud and sandy bottoms, over coastal areas, of bays and lagoons.
They feed during the day, on crustaceans and fish.
Juveniles found in seagrass beds.
Length - 71cm
Depth - 19-130m
Widespread Western Atlantic, Caribbean

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. Ref: https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Paralichthys-albigutta.html