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Bony fish

Ragged Flounder

Psettina tosana

Also known as: Large-scale Founder

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2020
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Overview

Found partially buried, or on mud and sandy bottoms, of bays, lagoons, and sheltered reefs.

(Named because the right eye of this highly compressed fish has migrated to the left side of the body)
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 · Northwest Pacific
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Found partially buried, or on mud and sandy bottoms, of bays, lagoons, and sheltered reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPleuronectiformes
    5. familyBothidae
    6. genusPsettina
    7. speciesPsettina tosana Amaoka, 1963

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    More in the family

    Lefteye Flounders (Bothidae)