The Wide-eyed flounder
Wide-eyed flounder, Bothus podas, belongs to the class Osteichthyes, to the subclass Actinopterygii, order Heterosamata, family Bothidae. The flat body has an ovalesque shape, the eyes are on the left side of the head. The roar of sand has a fairly modest size, in fact it reaches a maximum length of 20 cm. According to the environment where live the coloring lives varies from grey to beige or brown; The lower part is white in color. It lives on the sandy seabed of the Mediterranean Sea, of the Atlantic Ocean from Angola to the Azores, and we find it already a few meters deep. rombo di rena
It inhabits fine sandy bottoms between 2 and 400 meters deep and is frequently encountered in very shallow waters. It has the typical flattened appearance of flatfish, with both eyes on the left side of its very broad body. The lateral line has a double curve at its most anterior. The mouth is small and carried on a short, protruding snout; the mandible is longer than the maxilla. There is clear sexual dimorphism: the male has widely spaced eyes and a flat frontal profile. However, even in the female, the eyes are not close together.
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