Threespot Righteye Flounder

This highly compressed fish, is found partially buried, or on the sand, in caves, under ledges, and flat, against vertical rock surfaces, of bays, lagoons and seaward reefs.
They feed nocturnally, by crawling along in a wavy fashion, like a flatworm, to feed on benthic small fish, invertebrates and worms.

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.