Description

Also known as Estuarine Flatfish.

Found singly or in pairs over mud and sandy bottoms, of coastal areas brackish lakes.
They feed on small crustaceans and benthic invertebrates.
Length - 60cm
Depth - 12-100m
Widespread Eastern Central Atlantic, Mediterranean

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/Solea-senegalensis.html