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Paralichthyidae
shoal flounder
Syacium gunteri
Paralichthyid Fish beneath Western Atlantic
shoal flounder is known from Western Atlantic as a fish. The largest recorded length is 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Syacium
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: northeastern Florida (USA), Gulf of Mexico, and the Antilles to Guyana.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

