Broad Forehead Flounder

Tip of isthmus below middle of lower eye. Scales on ocular side ctenoid, armed with a row of hairlike spines. Caudal fin with 3 simple rays on upper and lower margins respectively. Pectoral fin elongated into a filament, longer than head. Caudal fin without a dark band. In male, body on blind side stained with dark-blue except for head, interorbital width broader and pectoral fin longer than in female.

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 79 - 86; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 59 - 67

Lives on sand and shell bottoms and feeds on bottom-living animals.

Lives on sand and shell bottoms and feeds on bottom-living animals. Sexually dimorphic characters develop at about 5 cm SL.

fisheries: of no interest