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Related FAQs: Flatfishes
Flatfish Overview: Pleuronectiform Fishes
/The Conscientious Marine
Aquarist
Flatfishes
of the Family Paralichthyidae: Flounders, Halibuts and
more.
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Bob Fenner
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Marine, some rarely in freshwater. Usually left handed/eyed. Have
pelvic fin bases that are short, pectoral fin rays branched. Eggs with
only a single oil globule (diagnostic character). About sixteen genera,
eighty five species. Polyphyletic.
| Paralichthys californicus (Ayres 1859), the
California Flounder (Halibut). Eastern Pacific; Washington to Baja
California. Recorded to more than five feet and 33 kg. in weight.
This twenty pound or so one at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in
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Ocellated flounder. Indo-Pacific. To 40 cm. Here in N. Sulawesi in 2006 |
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