Meaning | flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. |
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Synonym | lefteyed flounder |
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Member of | Bothidae, family Bothidae | A family of fish of the order Heterosomata |
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Narrower | brill, Scophthalmus rhombus | European food fish |
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grey flounder, gray flounder, Etropus rimosus | Flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico |
sand dab | small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America |
southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigmus | flounder of southern United States |
summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus | flounder of eastern coast of North America |
turbot, Psetta maxima | A large brownish European flatfish |
whiff | A lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil |
windowpane, Scophthalmus aquosus | Very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America |
Broader | flatfish | Any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side |
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