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Any fish without scales are haram (forbidden) but fish that do have scales are permissible. [2] Shia scholars tend to teach that no other aquatic creatures are halal, with the exception of certain edible aquatic crustaceans (e.g. shrimp but not crab), [3] [4] [5] which are also Halal like scaled fish.
Flounder typically grow to a length of 22–60 centimeters (8 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 23 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), and as large as 95 centimeters (37 in). Their width is about half their length. Male Platichthys have been found up to 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) off the coast of northern Sardinia, sometimes with heavy encrustations of various species of barnacle.
The distinctive features of the starry flounder include the combination of black and white-to-orange bar on the dorsal and anal fins, as well as the skin covered with scales modified into tiny star-shaped plates or tubercles (thus both the common name and species epithet), resulting in a rough feel. The eyed side is black to dark brown, while ...
[6] [7] [8] Halibut are dark brown on the top side with a white to off-white underbelly and have very small scales invisible to the naked eye embedded in their skin. [9] Halibut are symmetrical at birth with one eye on each side of the head. Then, about six months later, during larval metamorphosis one eye migrates to the other side of the head.
Mandarinfish lack scales and have a layer of smelly and bitter slime which blocks out disease and probably discourages predators, implying their bright coloration is aposematic. [63] Anglerfish have loose, thin skin often covered with fine forked dermal prickles or tubercles, but they do not have regular scales. They rely on camouflage to avoid ...
The smallmouth flounder is a lefteyed flatfish, and is therefore very thin when lying on its side. Its mouth and eyes lie on the same side of its body, and are small compared to the rest of its head, and the lateral line has approximately 41 to 45 scales. The left pelvic fin lies below the lateral line, about one quarter down its body.
Like other flatfish, the larval sand flounder begins its life with an eye on each side of its head and a round body shape, swimming upright through the midwater. [3] As it grows out of this larval stage entering the juvenile stage one eye moves to the right side leaving the other blind and it takes on a flat diamond shape swimming flat/parallel to the ground.
Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis – scale-eyed flounder; Subfamily Citharinae. Genus Citharoides. Citharoides axillaris; Citharoides macrolepidotus – branched ray flounder; Citharoides macrolepis – twospot largescale flounder; Citharoides orbitalis; Genus Citharus. Citharus linguatula – spotted flounder