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Paralichthyidae
dusky flounder
Syacium papillosum
Thirty Centimeters Paralichthyid Fish of the Brazilian Coast
dusky flounder is a marine fish of Western Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Syacium
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Ascension Island (Ref. 26340 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

