Species: Ancylopsetta dilecta, Three-eye Flounder

Ancylopsetta dilecta (Goode & Bean, 1883)

Three-eye Flounder

Body deep; eyes on left side; upper margin of head concave before eye; teeth small, conical, 1 row on jaws, equally developed on blind and eyed sides; lower gill rakers 6-9; dorsal fin origin ~over or slightly before top eye, 1st ray short, next 3 long, then decrease in size through 6th-7th ray, front rays with prominent fleshy projections at tips, dorsal rays 68-79, 38-46 rays between origin of fin and center of upper ocellus; pectoral fins on both sides of body, with branched rays, larger on eye side; pelvics symmetrically positioned on belly, short bases, eye-side fin about twice as long as blind side fin, base of neither fin on body midline; urinary papilla on eyed-side, anus on blind side; lateral line well developed on both sides, strongly arched over pectoral fin, branch under lower eye; scales on eye side rough, serrations well developed.

Brown; 3 large ocelli in a triangle on eye side, rear ocellus is on lateral line just before tail base; ocelli have thin white rings in black outer ring; blind side uniform pale.

Reaches 25 cm.

Lives on soft bottoms.

Depth range: 50-370 m.

North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico, also in Brazil.