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Flatfish meaning
A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.
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Reports on SM of significant amounts of razor clams, mussels, bivalves, urchins, seaweed and flatfish, crabs and starfish washed up.
Tanner crab are also prey for halibut, sculpins and other flatfish, including arrowtooth flounder.
A “Mimic Octopus” in the Atlantic: Flatfish Mimicry and Camouflage by Macrotritopus defilippi.
An observation of a flatfish from the Bathyscaphe Trieste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench at a depth of almost convert has been questioned by fish experts, and recent authorities do not recognize it as valid.
Lying on the bottom just beneath us was some type of flatfish, resembling a sole, about 1 foot long and 6 inches across.
On their 1960 descent, the crew of the Trieste noted that the floor consisted of diatomaceous ooze and reported observing "some type of flatfish" lying on the seabed.
Other light-coloured fish may be used, such as other flatfish, cod or saithe.
Slowly, extremely slowly, this flatfish swam away.
Some flatfish can actively camouflage themselves on the ocean floor.
White fish can be divided into benthopelagic fish (round fish which live near the sea bed, such as cod and coley ) and benthic fish (which live on the sea bed, such as flatfish like plaice ).