Windowpane Flounder

Epitheliocystis. Bacterial diseases

Benthic species. Young feeds on mysids; adults on tomcod, smelt, hake pollock, striped bass, herring, sand shrimp, amphipods, sand lance and seaweed. Parasites of the species include 2 protozoans, 3 trematodes, 1 cestode, 3 nematodes and 2 acanthocephalans (Ref. 5951).

Occurs from shore to 45 m depth, occasionally in deeper water.

fisheries: commercial