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Bothidae
pelican flounder
Chascanopsetta lugubris
A Flexible Body Opens an Enormous Mouth
pelican flounder is known around Circumtropical as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and the largest recorded length is 40 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Bothidae
- Genus
- Chascanopsetta
- Maximum length
- 40 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Circumtropical: from Western Atlantic to Western Pacific.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

