Unidentified lefteye flounders
This is not nudibranch or sea slug
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: What an unusual juvenile flatfish (Pisces: family Bothidae). It has a strong mimetic resemblance to a flatworm or a nudibranch in its colouration and probably in the way it moves along, so it is no surprise a novice diver or underwater predator would confuse them.
Comment from the photographer: Is it a flatworm or something else - with one spike and a little tail?
| Location: | Redang, Malaysia |
| Photographer: | Sabine Rock |
| Camera: | Olympus C5060 Wide Zoom › View EXIF properties |
| Taken on: | April 14, 2008 |
| Viewed: | 1094 times |
| Posted: | 5 years ago |
| Updated: | 5 years ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Bothidae |
| Species: | Unidentified lefteye flounders |