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Bothus mancus (Tropical flounder; Peacock flounder; Manyray flatfish; Flowery flounder; Flounder)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The peacock flounder (Bothus mancus), also known as the flowery flounder, is a species of fish in the family Bothidae (lefteye flounders). The species is found widely in relatively shallow waters in the Indo-Pacific, also ranging into warmer parts of the east Pacific.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Prey / Diet

Apogon erythrinus (Cryptic cardinalfish)[1]
Blenniella periophthalmus (Blue-dashed rockskipper)[1]
Enneapterygius minutus (Minute triplefin)[1]
Ostorhinchus novemfasciatus (nineband cardinalfish)[1]
Parupeneus trifasciatus (Doublebar goatfish)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Caudotestis azurionis[2]
Procamallanus istiblenni[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0