Flatfishes: Pleuronectiformes
Physical Characteristics, Behavior And Reproduction, Peacock Flounder (bothus Lunatus): Species Accounts, Pacific Halibut (hippoglossus Stenolepis): Species AccountsGEOGRAPHIC RANGE, HABITAT, DIET, FLATFISHES AND PEOPLE,
PEACOCK FLOUNDER (Bothus lunatus): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
PACIFIC HALIBUT (Hippoglossus stenolepis): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
COMMON SOLE (Solea solea): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
PACIFIC HALIBUT (Hippoglossus stenolepis): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
COMMON SOLE (Solea solea): SPECIES ACCOUNTS
Flatfishes live all over the world.
Most flatfishes live in coastal waters over sand and mud bottoms.
Flatfishes eat invertebrates (in-VER-teh-brehts), or animals without backbones, and fishes.
Flatfishes are important food fishes.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) lists one species of flatfishes as Endangered and one as Vulnerable. Endangered means facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. Vulnerable means facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
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