Species: Trichopsetta ventralis, Sash flounder

dark spot: LL origin & pectoral base

male: blind side pelvic - v long rays
Trichopsetta ventralis (Goode & Bean, 1885)
Sash flounder
Body oval, depth 42-49% of SL; eyes on left side of head, close together, with a spineless crest between them; snout concave on upper side; mouth moderate, ends under middle of eye, ~41% of head length; teeth small, pointed, almost entirely on blind side jaws; 9-11 moderately long, slender lower gill rakers; dorsal rays 89-95; dorsal origin in front of top eye; anal rays 69-75; pectoral fin on both sides, rays not branched, eye side fin shorter than blind side fin; eye side pelvic fin 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, blind side fin of male with very long rays; lateral line on eye side only, strongly arched above the pectoral, no branch under lower eye; 63-68 lateral line scales.
Brown; a small dark spot at beginning of lateral line, another on front of pectoral base; a dark blotch at front of straight part of lateral line; front of anal fin of male with dark blotch.
Reaches 20 cm.
Soft bottoms.
Depth range: 30-252 m.
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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- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Extends South of GC
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Continent only
- Also in Brazil
- 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 30
- Depth Range Max
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- 252