Plate fish
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| Plate fish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Bothidae |
| Genus: | Bothus |
| Species: | B. lunatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bothus lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
The plate fish, Bothus lunatus, is a flounder of the genus Bothus, from warmer parts of the Atlantic, including the Caribbean. It is sometimes known as the peacock flounder, leading to easy confusion with the rather similar Bothus mancus from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a length of 46 centimetres (18 in).
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2008). "Bothus lunatus" in FishBase. December 2008 version.
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