Frill-mouth Sole
Brachirus aspilos
Also known as: Margined Sole, Brachirus heterolepis
- Margined Sole
- Brachirus heterolepis
Overview
Found singly, during the day buried in sandy substrates, close to reefs, out foraging for food at night, over sheltered bays and lagoons. Both eyes are on the right-hand side.
They feed nocturnally on benthic invertebrates.
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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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Western Central Pacific
- Country only · 5
Found singly, during the day buried in sandy substrates, close to reefs, out foraging for food at night, over sheltered bays and lagoons.
Adult photos 5
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