Species: Ancylopsetta dendritica, Three-spot flounder
Ancylopsetta dendritica Gilbert, 1890
Three-spot flounder
Body deep; height ~ 54% of SL; eyes on left side (uncommonly on right side); upper margin of head concave before eye; mouth long, ~ 38% of head length, ends under middle lower eye; teeth small, conical, 1 row on jaws, equally developed on blind and eyed sides; 7-9 short, fat gill rakers; dorsal origin over front edge of eye; dorsal rays 76-84; pelvics symmetrically positioned on belly, eye-side fin very long, more than twice as long as blind side fin; pectoral larger on eye side; urinary papilla on eyed-side, anus on blind side; lateral line well developed on both sides, strongly arched over pectoral fin extending onto head with branches behind upper eye and under lower eye; scales on both sides of body very rough; lateral line with 86-90 scales.
Eye-side body and fins dark brown; 3 large ocelli on body, a pair on midbody on the upper and lower flanks, the 3rd just before tail base, each consisting of a large round black spot surrounded by a thin yellow ring and with 1-2 small white central spots.
Size: 35 cm.
Habitat: muddy-sand bottoms.
Depth: 7-100 m.
Southern Baja and the Gulf of California to Peru, and Malpelo.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Mud
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- 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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- 35
- Depth Range Min
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- 7
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
