lefteyed flounder
Noun
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Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head (synset 102663647)
is a type of: 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 sidesubtypes:
- paralichthys lethostigmus, southern flounder - flounder of southern United States
- paralichthys dentatus, summer flounder - flounder of eastern coast of North America
- etropus rimosus, gray flounder, grey flounder - flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico
- whiff - a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- sand dab - small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
- scophthalmus aquosus, windowpane - very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
- brill, scophthalmus rhombus - European food fish
- psetta maxima, turbot - a large brownish European flatfish
belongs to: bothidae, family bothidae - a family of fish of the order Heterosomatasame as: lefteye flounder
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