WHATSTHATFISH
Bony fish

Threespot Flounder

Grammatobothus polyophthalmus

Also known as: Many-eyed Flounder, Triangular Flounder

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2016
Adult
@gavinfonseca · Ras Al Hadd, Oman · April 20151 / 1
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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.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
spots
Head & Mouth
eyes

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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.

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPleuronectiformes
    5. familyBothidae
    6. genusGrammatobothus
    7. speciesGrammatobothus polyophthalmus (Bleeker, 1865)

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    More in the family

    Lefteye Flounders (Bothidae)