Sentence examples for flatfishes from inspiring English sources

Both, as flatfishes, have the eyes and colour on one side of the body, and both, as members of the family Pleuronectidae, usually have these features on the right side.

Larval flatfishes have an eye on each side of the head, but during a period of rapid body change (metamorphosis) one eye migrates to the other side of the head, after which the larvae settle to the bottom.

Flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae are commercially important in northern waters, and members of other families are taken in limited quantities.

Flatfishes generally spawn offshore, but some spawn in estuaries.

Dab, any of the flatfishes of the genus Limanda, family Pleuronectidae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific.

Tonguefish, also called tongue sole, any of the small marine flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, found in the tropics, especially in Asia.

Those for fisheries on the continental shelves were derived from standardised research surveys of large bottom-dwelling fish such as cod, flatfish, skates and rays.

The Netherlands has some of the world's most efficient trawlers for flatfish, in terms of tonnes caught per vessel in a day but they drink fuel at a fearsome rate.

"If you go trolling for flatfish, you might pull out a dead friend".One of the most terrible reports concerns the Ookawa Elementary School on Matsushima Bay, a school built in the wrong place on a narrow floodplain.

Classification among flatfish families remains in flux.

Several other flatfish are also called turbot.