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Hook-nosed Sole

Heteromycteris hartzfeldii

Also known as: Hartfeld's Sole, Hooknose Sole

Adult
@fishx6 · Lembeh, Indonesia · August 20081 / 4
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Overview

Found singly, during the day buried in sand, foraging for food at night, over shallow bays and estuaries.
They feed nocturnally on benthic fish and invertebrates.
Western Pacific - Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines

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 Pacific
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Found singly, during the day buried in sand, foraging for food at night, over shallow bays and estuaries.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPleuronectiformes
    5. familySoleidae
    6. genusHeteromycteris
    7. speciesHeteromycteris hartzfeldii (Bleeker, 1853)

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    More in the family

    Soles (Soleidae)