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The summer flounder or fluke (Paralichthys dentatus) is a marine flatfish that is found in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. It is especially abundant in waters from North Carolina to Massachusetts .
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The fish has a small mouth at the end of its bluntly pointed snout. The upper surface is fawn, olive green or pale brown with spots and larger patches of darker brown and some irregular reddish spots. The under surface is opaque pearly-white giving the fish its common name of "white fluke".
A flounder's diet consists mainly of fish spawn, crustaceans, polychaetes and small fish. Flounder typically grow to a length of 22–60 centimeters (8.7–23.6 in), and as large as 95 centimeters (37 in). Their width is about half their length.
Fluke (fish), a species of marine flatfish Fluke (tail) , the lobes of the tail of a cetacean , such as dolphins , whales , and porpoises . Fluke (flatworm) , parasitic flatworms in the class Trematoda
The hermaphroditic adults are oviparous and produce eggs into the water which hatch prior to attaching to the gills of a fish host and developing into an oncomiracidium. [7] Adult Dactylogyrus lay about 4-10 eggs per day. [8] After the eggs hatch, water currents aid the free-swimming ciliated larva in reaching its host.
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