Species: Paralichthys lethostigma, Southern flounder

large mouth, 1 row canines both jaws

Paralichthys lethostigma Jordan & Gilbert, 1884
Southern flounder
Body oval, elongate (43-48% of SL); eyes on left side, relatively small; space between eyes flat and about as wide as an eye; upper profile of head slightly concave above eyes; mouth large, ends under or behind rear edge of lower eye; teeth are large canines, in a single row on each jaw; 8-11 lower gill rakers; dorsal rays 80-95, its origin above center between nostrils, front rays not elongated; 63-74 anal rays; pectoral fins on both sides of body, with branched rays, eye-side fin short (not reaching to straight part of lateral line) and rounded, 11-13 rays; pelvic fins with symmetric bases, base of neither fin on body midline, fins same size; urinary papilla on eye side, immediately behind level of anus; tail fin with a blunt point; eye-side scales smooth and small, 85-100 on lateral line; lateral line well developed on both sides, extending onto head, with branches to upper eye and below lower eye, strongly arched over pectoral fin.
Eye side brown; body and fins with diffuse dark spots and blotches, fading in large fish.
Size: 91.5 cm.
Habitat: mud and silty bottoms; marine and brackish with adults entering rivers.
Depth: 1-40 m.
N Carolina to the W Gulf of Mexico.

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- Salinity
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- Freshwater
- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Freshwater
- Estuary
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Beach
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- 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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- Extends North of GC
- GC endemic
- Continent only
- Continent
- All species..
- 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
- Near threatened
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 40
- Length Max
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- 91.5