#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 side
supertype: #spiny-finned_fish__acanthopterygian a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
member of: #order_Heterosomata
subtype: #flounder.flatfish any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
subtype: #righteye_flounder__righteyed_flounder__righteyedflounder flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
subtype: #Pleuronectes_platessa__plaice large European food fish
subtype: #European_flatfish__Platichthys_flesus important food fish of Europe
subtype: #Limanda_ferruginea__yellowtail_flounder American flounder having a yellowish tail
subtype: #blackback_flounder__blackbackflounder__winter_flounder__lemon_sole__lemonsole__Pseudopleuronectes_americanus important American food fish in the winter
subtype: #Microstomus_kitt__lemon_sole__lemonsole European flatfish highly valued as food
subtype: #American_plaice__Hippoglossoides_platessoides large American food fish
subtype: #Atlantic_halibut__Hippoglossus_hippoglossus largest United States flatfish
subtype: #Pacific_halibut__Hippoglossus_stenolepsis a righteye flounder found in the Pacific
subtype: #holibut marine food fish of North Atlantic or North Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
subtype: #lefteye_flounder__lefteyeflounder__lefteyed_flounder flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head
subtype: #southern_flounder__Paralichthys_lethostigmus flounder of southern United States
subtype: #summer_flounder__Paralichthys_dentatus flounder of eastern coast of North America
subtype: #gray_flounder__Etropus_rimosus flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico
subtype: #whiff.lefteye_flounder a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
subtype: #horned_whiff__Citharichthys_cornutus whiff found in waters from the Bahamas and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
subtype: #sand_dab small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
subtype: #Scophthalmus_aquosus__windowpane very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
subtype: #brill__scophthalmusrhombu European food fish
subtype: #Psetta_maxima__turbot a large brownish European flatfish
subtype: #tonguefish left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value
subtype: #sole.flatfish right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
subtype: #European_sole__Solea_solea highly valued as food
subtype: #Solea_lascaris__lemon_sole__lemonsole small European sole
subtype: #Parophrys_vitulus__English_sole__lemon_sole__lemonsole popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
subtype: #sand_sole__Psettichthys_melanostichus common flatfish of North American Pacific coast
subtype: #hogchoker__Trinectes_maculatus useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama
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