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View Tonguefish swimming over a molten sulfur pond near the Mariana Islands
Tonguefish (family Cynoglossidae) swimming out over the crusted surface of a molten...
Video: Major funding for this expedition was provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration Program and NOAA Vents Program; video clips edited by Bill Chadwick, Oregon State University/NOAA
See how tonguefish attack dead fish on the seafloor at Daikoku near the Mariana Islands
Dead mid-water fish float down to the seafloor and are attacked by tonguefish (family...
Video: Major funding for this expedition was provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration Program and NOAA Vents Program; video clips edited by Bill Chadwick, Oregon State University/NOAA

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Body plan and sexual dimorphism in the common sole (Solea solea) and dusky...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
flatfish
Background matching by a flatfish on a sandy bottom floor.
Jen & Des Bartlett/Bruce Coleman Inc.
Flatfish (Scophthalmus).
Jacques Six
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