-+Starry+Flounder

A starry wonderous Flounder Travling in the ocean not a human knowing what is of to amke of this beautiful fish. This fish is a very populated speices with several different families to it. The Family that the Starry Flounder is Platichthys Stellatus, it is a vey common flat fish that is usually found in the Northern Pacific. The Flounder has a variety of colors some being black, bown, green, oange/white, etc... this being on the Dosal or Anal fin. The Fish has tiny star shaped scales ( hencing the name of the fish) that are rough looking and feeling as well. the top or "eyed side" they say is to be usually a dark brown or black and the lower part of the fish is going to be a cream color. Flounders ae nomally to be called right eyed flounders but the flounders can have their eye either on the left or right side. Flounders are a very inshoe type of fish nto wondering to far out into the deep waters, they are both fesh and salt water fish. They dont really swim but they tend to glide using there dorsal and anal fin to help move them. As babies they eat planktonic algea and crustceans but as they matue they soon will feed on lager animals and other fish. Flounders dont start off swimming on there side as babies they swim like a normal fish and as they grow they will start to tun and tilt sideways make their home on the bottom land. They breed, feed and live on the bottom shallow floors of the ocean and fresh water shallows as well. They are and abundant of food sorce around the world especially for Japan, Korea, Aluetian islands to alaska, canada and other parts of the United States. By Aubrie