Description

Also known as Banded Sole, Many-banded Sole, Zebra Sole.

Found singly, over mud and sandy bottoms, of estuaries and sheltered bays.
They feed on small fish and invertebrates.
Length - 25cm
Depth - 5-100cm
Widespread Northwest 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/Zebrias-fasciatus.html