Species: Ancylopsetta quadrocellata, Ocellated Flounder

Ancylopsetta quadrocellata Gill, 1865

Ocellated 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, front rays slightly longer than succeeding rays, but without fleshy projections at tips; dorsal rays 67-76; pectoral fins on both sides of body, with branched rays; pelvics symmetrically positioned on belly, base of neither fin on body midline, eye-side fin longer than blind side fin, inner rays of eye-side fin not extensively branched; pectoral larger on eye side; 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 rough on eye side.

Brown; 4 large ocelli on eye side – 1 above arch of pectoral fin, 3 in a triangle on eye side, rear ocellus is on lateral line; centers of ocelli whitish; blind side whitish; no ocellus on pelvic tip.

Reaches 25 cm.

Lives on soft bottoms.

Depth range: 1-165 m.

N Carolina to Campeche bank, also in Brazil.