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IllustrationBigeye flounder (no English common name)
Poecilopsetta albomaculata
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Bigeye flounder (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Poecilopsetta albomaculata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Deep-water fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 14 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Deep-water, on or near the bottom, recorded from 256 to 293 m
- IUCN status
- DD · Data DeficientData Deficient (DD), assessed 2020
Description
A small, deep-bodied flounder reaching about 14 cm, recorded from deep bottoms at about 250 to 300 m.
In the Maldives
Known only from the Maldives.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Poecilopsetta-albomaculata.html
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.