''Citharus linguatula'', the spotted flounder or Atlantic spotted flounder, is a
species of fish in the
Citharidae, a family of
flounder
Flounders are a group of flatfish species. They are demersal fish, found at the bottom of oceans around the world; some species will also enter estuaries.
Taxonomy
The name "flounder" is used for several only distantly related species, thou ...
s. It is native to the eastern
Atlantic Ocean (off northwest Africa) and the
Mediterranean Sea, where it is found to a depth of . This species grows to a
total length of . It is of minor importance to local
commercial fisheries. This species is the only known member of its
monotypic genus.
References
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Pleuronectiformes
Fish described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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