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Deepwater Dab
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Other fish (coast and sea)

Deepwater Dab

Poecilopsetta beanii (Goode, 1881)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishDeepwater Dab
Dutch—
SpanishLenguado ojón
Chinese比恩氏瓦鲽
Scientific namePoecilopsetta beanii (Goode, 1881)

About this species

The deepwater dab (Poecilopsetta beanii) is a species of flatfish in the family Poecilopsettidae. It is a bathydemersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of 155 to 1,636 m (509 to 5,367 ft). It can reach 10.7 cm (4.2 in) in length. Its native habitat is the western Atlantic and Caribbean, from New England, USA, south through the Gulf of Mexico to Campeche, Mexico, and from the coast of Brazil to northern Colombia, the Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, and Cuba.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPleuronectiformes
FamilyPleuronectidae
GenusPoecilopsetta