Bothidae
Arnoglossus laterna (Walbaum, 1792)
Arnoglossus laterna (Walbaum, 1792)
Arnoglossus laterna, the Mediterranean scaldfish, is a small sexually dimorphic flatfish found in the eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea.
Arnoglossus thori Kyle, 1913
Arnoglossus thori Kyle, 1913
Thor's scaldfish (Arnoglossus thori) is a small benthic lefteye flounder found in parts of the Atlantic and Mediterranean/Black Seas.
Bothus mancus (Broussonet, 1782)
Bothus mancus (Broussonet, 1782)
Bothus mancus, the peacock flounder, is a left-eye flounder with independent mobile eyes found in shallow to 150m marine waters.
Bothus podas (Delaroche, 1809)
Bothus podas (Delaroche, 1809)
Bothus podas (wide-eyed flounder) is a genus Bothus flounder native to the Mediterranean and Africa's Atlantic coast, with documented reproductive mating behavior.
Bothus pantherinus (Rüppell, 1830)
Bothus pantherinus (Rüppell, 1830)
Bothus pantherinus, the leopard flounder, is a camouflaging lefteye flounder found across the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea to Japan and Australia.
Bothus lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bothus lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bothus lunatus is a flattened Caribbean and Atlantic flounder that can rapidly change color for camouflage.
Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)
Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)
Bothus ocellatus, the eyed flounder, is a flatfish found in the western Atlantic from Canada to southern Brazil that can change color to match its background.
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