righteye flounder
Noun
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Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head (synset 102660709)
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:
- plaice, pleuronectes platessa - large European food fish
- european flatfish, platichthys flesus - important food fish of Europe
- limanda ferruginea, yellowtail flounder - American flounder having a yellowish tail
- blackback flounder, lemon sole, pseudopleuronectes americanus, winter flounder - important American food fish in the winter
- lemon sole, microstomus kitt - European flatfish highly valued as food
- american plaice, hippoglossoides platessoides - large American food fish
- atlantic halibut, hippoglossus hippoglossus - largest United States flatfish
- hippoglossus stenolepsis, pacific halibut - a righteye flounder found in the Pacific
belongs to: family pleuronectidae, pleuronectidae - righteye flounderssame as: righteyed flounder
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