Description

Also known as Margined Sole, Shallow-water Sole.

Found singly, during the day buried in sand, out foraging for food at night, over shallow coastal lagoons and seaward reefs. Both eyes are on the right-hand side.
They feed nocturnally on benthic invertebrates.
Length - 50cm
Depth - 1-40m
Widespread Indo-West 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. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Synaptura-marginata.html