Flatfish
Of spiny-finned fish and Heterosomata.
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.
This concept's ID is @1~14031
Contains
- righteye flounder
Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head.
- lefteye flounder
Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head.
- sole
Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European.
- halibut
Marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and...
- flounder
Any of various European and non-European marine flatfish.
- tonguefish
Left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value.