Species: Monolene dubiosa, Acapulco flounder, Asaedae flounder, Dark flounder

eyes close together, spineless crest between

Monolene dubiosa Garman, 1899
Acapulco flounder, Asaedae flounder, Dark flounder
Body elongate (depth 39-44% of SL), tapering to tail; snout very short (< eye); eyes on left side of head, close together, with a spineless crest between them; lower eye originates slightly before top eye; mouth short, ends ~ front edge lower eye; teeth ~ equally developed on jaws on both eye- and blind-sides; 75-85 dorsal rays; 56-64 anal rays; pectoral short, ~½ length of head, 10-12 rays, no pectoral on blind side in adults; base of eye-side pelvic slightly longer than base of blind-side fin, with origin behind lower eye; lateral line arched over pectoral fin; 67-83 lateral line scales.
Dark body and fins; pectoral tip with a large oval black spot bordered in front with white.
Size: 13.2 cm.
Habitat: shell and mud bottoms.
Depth: 90-209 m.
Southern Baja and the SE Gulf of California to Panama.

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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 13.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 90
- Depth Range Max
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- 209