The willowy flounder is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of between 100 and 200 metres . Its native habitat is the temperate waters of the Western Pacific, from Southern Hokkaido in Japan to the Gulf of Bohai, the East China Sea and Taiwan. It can grow up to 30 centimetres in length.
Willowy flounder
species of fish
Categories:
Fish
Also known as:
English:
yellow-body rockfish
Japanese:
ササガレイ
Japanese (Romanized):
sasagarei
Latin species name:
Sebastes steindachneri
Wikidata ID:
Q2695868
Wikipedia title:
Willowy flounder
References:
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