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Also Known As	Pleuronectiformes • flatfish • Heterosomata

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Body plan and sexual dimorphism in the common sole (Solea solea) and dusky flounder (Syacium papillosum).

Flatfish (Scophthalmus).

View Tonguefish swimming over a molten sulfur pond near the Mariana Islands

See how tonguefish attack dead fish on the seafloor at Daikoku near the Mariana Islands

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Psettodoidei Pleuronectoidei crested flounder sand flounder Achiropsettidae measles flounder Psettodidae American sole Scophthalmidae Citharidae perciform scorpaeniform atheriniform gasterosteiform tetraodontiform swamp eel moonfish

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