Bothidae
Family of fishes
Lefteye flounders | |
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Scaldfish, Arnoglossus laterna | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
Family: | Bothidae Smitt, 1892 |
Type genus | |
Bothus Rafinesque, 1810 | |
Genera | |
Arnoglossus |
Bothidae or lefteye flounders are a family of flounders. They are called "lefteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their right sides, with both eyes on their left sides.[1] The family is also distinguished by the presence of spines on the snout and near the eyes.[2]
Lefteye flounders vary considerably in size between the more than 160 species, ranging from 4.5 cm (1.8 in) to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length.[2]
- Scaldfish (Arnoglossus laterna) larva
- Wide-eyed flounder, Bothus podas
- Laeops macrophthalmus
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- Deepwater flounder, Monolene sessilicauda
- Sash flounder, Trichopsetta ventralis
See also
- Pleuronectidae, the righteye family of flounders
References
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larger
flatfish
Halibut |
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Plaice |
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Turbot |
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![Indonesian ocellated flounder](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Psammodiscus_ocellatus.jpg/140px-Psammodiscus_ocellatus.jpg)
![Three-eye flounder](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Ancylopsetta_dilecta_2.jpg/140px-Ancylopsetta_dilecta_2.jpg)
![Winter flounder](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Pseudopleuronectes_americanus.jpg/140px-Pseudopleuronectes_americanus.jpg)
![True turbot](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Psetta_maxima_Luc_Viatour.jpg/140px-Psetta_maxima_Luc_Viatour.jpg)
smaller
flatfish
- Demersal fish
- Transitional fossils
- As food
- Turbot War