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Bothidae
peacock flounder
Bothus lunatus
Blue ringed spots haunting clear mangrove shallows
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Mediumpeacock flounder is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 46 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Bothidae
- Genus
- Bothus
- Maximum length
- 46 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Florida (USA), Bermuda, and the Bahamas to Brazil. Absent in Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 26938 ). Eastern Atlantic: Ascension Island and the Gulf of Guinea (Ref. 5979 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
