Deepwater Dab
Poecilopsetta beanii
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The deepwater dab is a species of flatfish in the family Poecilopsettidae. It is a bathydemersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of 155 to 1,636 m. It can reach 10.7 cm (4.2 in) in length. Its native habitat is the western Atlantic and Caribbean, from New England, USA, south through the Gulf of Mexico to Campeche, Mexico, and from the coast of Brazil to northern Colombia, the Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, and Cuba.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Poecilopsettidae
- Genus
- Poecilopsetta