Species: Trichopsetta caribbaea, Caribbean flounder, Carribbean flounder

A 75-82

Trichopsetta caribbaea Anderson & Gutherz, 1967
Carribbean flounder
Body oval; snout concave on upper side; eyes on left side of head, close together, with a spineless crest between them; mouth moderate length, ends under middle of eye, 32-45% of head length; teeth small, pointed, almost entirely on blind side jaws; 9-11 long, slender lower gill rakers; dorsal origin in front of top eye, dorsal rays 95-103; anal rays 75-82; pectoral fin on both sides, rays not branched, eye-side fin shorter than blind-side fin; eye side pelvic with base about equal to that of blind side fin, situated on body midline, its origin slightly behind that of blind side fin and well behind lower eye; lateral line on eye side only, strongly arched above the pectoral, no branch under lower eye; 69-79 lateral line scales.
Brown; 4-6 dark semicircular marks or spots along upper and lower body profiles; several dark spots along lateral line.
Reaches 20 cm.
Soft bottoms.
Depth range: 70-387 m.
The central Caribbean to Suriname.

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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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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Extends South of GC
- All species..
- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 70
- Depth Range Max
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- 387