Eyed Flounder
Bothus ocellatus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Family
- Bothidae
- Genus
- Bothus
Where to Find
Found in 51 diving areas across 31 countries and 4 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 7 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 5 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 4 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 7 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 5 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 44 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 4 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 6 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 25 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 24 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 21 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 4 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 17 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 9 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 5 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 10 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 7 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 7 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 2 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 2 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 7 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 8 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 5 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 12 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 5 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 5 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 8 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 6 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 4 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 50 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 10 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 6 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 12 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 7 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 5 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 6 records
- Utila, Honduras - 12 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 6 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 7 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 13 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 10 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 5 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 1 records