Crested flounder
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{{Taxobox | name = Crested flounder
| image = Lophonectes_gallus_(Crested_flounder).gif
| image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Actinopterygii]]
| ordo = [[Pleuronectiformes]]
| familia = [[Bothidae]]
| genus = ''[[Lophonectes]]''
| species = '''''L. gallus'''''
| binomial = ''Lophonectes gallus''
| binomial_authority = Günther, 1880
}}
The '''crested flounder''', ''Lophonectes gallus'', is a [[lefteye flounder]] of the genus ''[[Lophonectes]]'', found around south eastern [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]], in shallow enclosed waters such as estuaries, harbours, mudflats, and sandflats, in waters less than 240 m in depth. Their length is from 10 to 20 cm.
The crested flounder is a [[Bothidae|lefteye flounder]] meaning it has both eyes on the left side of the head and lies on its right side. It has the typical flattened oval shape of the flounder with the [[dorsal fin|dorsal]] and [[anal fin]]s forming a fringe around most of the body. The [[anterior]] [[dorsal fin]] rays are greatly elongated, especially in the male. They swim by means of slight undulations of their fins and the outer edges of the body, keeping in contact with the bottom and seeming to "slide".
The colouring is grey on the back with many small dark spots.
The crested flounder eats [[worm]]s, small [[crustacean]]s, and organic matter found in sand and mud. Like the [[witch (lefteye flounder)|witch]] it is not a popular foodfish.
==References==
* {{FishBase species | genus = Lophonectes | species = gallus | month = February | year = 2006}}
* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand [[1982]]) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
[[Category: Bothidae]]