Threespot Flounder
Grammatobothus polyophthalmus
Also known as: Many-eyed Flounder, Triangular Flounder
- Many-eyed Flounder
- Triangular Flounder
Overview
Found partially buried, in, or on mud, rubble and sand bottoms of the continental shelf.
(Named because the right eye 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.
How to identify
- Pattern
- spots
- Head & Mouth
- eyes
- Behaviour
- buries in sand
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Indo-West Pacific
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Found partially buried, in, or on mud, rubble and sand bottoms of the continental shelf.
Adult photos 1
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