Fish of the Bothus genus of the Bothidae (lefteye flounders) family of the Pleuronectoidei suborder of the Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes) order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Wide-eyed flounder. Photo by © jome jome. flickr.com/photos/jomejome)
Wide–eyed flounder (Bothus podas) was first described in 1809 by the French botanist and ichthyologist François Delaroche (1781-1812).
It lives at a depth of 15-400 meters. It prefers to swim near the sandy and muddy bottom. The maximum recorded length is 45 cm; specimens up to 15 cm long are more common. It feeds on small fish and invertebrates.
(Wide-eyed flounder. Photo by © Rui Patricio Freitas. fihbase.org)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea, more often found in its southern part.
Names of wide–eyed flounder (Bothus podas) in other languages are as follows:
Shkotra kukuvajkë (Albanian), Gevlekte dwergtarbot (Dutch), Πισί (Pisi) (Greek), Podas (Spanish), Rombo di rena (Italian), Weitaugenbutt (German), Skarp śródziemnomorski (Polish), Carteta (Portuguese), Средиземноморский ботус (Sredizemnomoskij botus) (Russian), Razok (Serbian, Croatian), Rombou podas (French).