Shrimp flounder

Shrimp flounder

Taxobox
name = Shrimp flounder
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Pleuronectiformes
familia = Paralichthyidae
genus = "Gastropsetta"
species = "G. frontalis"
binomial = "Gastropsetta frontalis"
binomial_authority = (Bean, 1895)

The Shrimp flounder ("Gastropsetta frontalis") is a species of large-tooth flounder, the only member of its genus "Gastropsetta". It is endemic to the western Atlantic Ocean, from North Carolina to Florida, and from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Panama. It also occurs in The Bahamas.

The shrimp flounder grows to a maximum of 25 cm in length, and like other large-tooth flounders has both eyes on the right side of the head. It occurs in bays and shallow waters.

References

*FishBase species | genus = Gastropsetta| species = frontalis| month = October| year = 2006


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