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  • Flowery Flounder Flowery Flounder Bothus mancus (Broussonet 1782) Actinopterygii > Pleuronectiformes > Bothidae > Bothus A left-side flounder with dark-margined pale spots and numerous scattered small dark spots, usually three dark spots or blotches on lateral line, a row of widely-spaced dark spots on dorsal and anal fins, and eyed side pectoral fins with dark crossbars. Video of a well-camouflaged Flowery Flounder on Agincourt reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Video of a Flowery Flounders - the Kings of Camouflage .
  • No Photo Available Threespot Righteye Flounder Samariscus triocellatus Woods 1960 Actinopterygii > Pleuronectiformes > Samaridae > Samariscus Samariscus triocellatus is a small slender righteye flounder with a mottled brown body and three dark-edged ocelli along the lateral line. It usually lives on rubble and sandy bottoms of coral reefs. As it slowly moves across the bottom, it is well camouflaged to resemble a flatworm, sometimes waving its black pectoral fin.
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