Species: Etropus rimosus, Gray flounder
Etropus rimosus Goode & Bean, 1885
Gray flounder
Body a deep oval; head short, pointed; space between eyes very narrow, with a strongly elevated ridge; mouth very small; lower jaws not symmetrical, jaws on blind side arched; teeth small, in a single series on each jaw, concentrated on blind side of upper jaw; gill rakers short and stout, 5-8 + 3-6; dorsal rays 70-83; anal rays 53-56; pelvics symmetrically positioned on belly, base of eye-side fin on body midline, short bases; pectoral fins on both sides of body, with branched rays, rays 10; lateral line well developed on both sides, straight, no branch under lower eye; body with large accessory scales that cover 3/4 of main scales; snout with scales before level of nostrils, teeth on those scales highly modified, especially in large males; main scales on blind side rough; 36-45 lateral line scales.
Mid-brown body and fins; lateral line with 3 dark obscure blotches.
Size: to 13 cm.
Inhabits soft mud and sand bottoms.
Depth: 7-190 m.
North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- All species..
- Extends North of GC
- GC endemic
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 13
- Depth Range Min
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- 7
- Depth Range Max
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- 190
