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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Jacks, Flounders, Barracudas, and Allies
  6. Flatfishes
  7. Sand Flounders

family

Sand Flounders

Paralichthyidae

Includes
6 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Summer Flounders 4 native
  • Xystreurys 1 native
  • Ocellated Flounders 1 native
  • Flounder
  • Hippoglossina

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native sand flounders All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Summer Flounder Paralichthys dentatus 1,818 observations
  • California Halibut Paralichthys californicus 1,369 observations
  • Southern Flounder Paralichthys lethostigma 1,026 observations
  • Fantail Sole Xystreurys liolepis 115 observations
  • Fourspot Flounder Paralichthys oblongus 23 observations
  • Bigmouth Flounder Hippoglossina stomata 18 observations

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