WHATSTHATFISH
Bony fish

Largetooth Flounder

Pseudorhombus arsius

Also known as: Deep Flounder, False Brill, Flounder, Large-toothed Flounder, Left-eyed Flatfish, Smoothscale Brill, Smooth-scaled Brill

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2021
Adult
@hydradon · Binh Hung, Vietnam · December 20171 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, on mud and sandy bottoms, over shallow estuaries, and coastal waters.

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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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
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Found singly, on mud and sandy bottoms, over shallow estuaries, and coastal waters.

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPleuronectiformes
    5. familyParalichthyidae
    6. genusPseudorhombus
    7. speciesPseudorhombus arsius (Hamilton, 1822)

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    More in the family

    Pleuronectiformes