Butter flounder

Latin: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
Size:
2.5 kg and 60 cm long
Levested:
Soft seabed from 40-400 meters deep.
Distribution:
From Biscay and north to Iceland and the Barents Sea. All along the Norwegian coast.
Food:
Brushworms, shells, crustaceans and snake stars.
Facts about butterflyfish

This is the most elongated flounder species we have in Norway, and one of the deepest living.

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