# Lenguado común (Solea solea), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 05-06 FS

- By: Diego Delso
- Date: 2020-07-23
- Classification: Photograph
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Common sole (Solea solea), Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. The common sole is a species of flatfish in the family Soleidae. It lives on the sandy or muddy seabed of the northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea where it often semi-immerses itself in the substrate as seen on the image. The small eyes are close to each other on the right side of the body. This gives the fish the possibility of lurking half-buried in the sand for passing prey. The common sole, just like all other flatfishes, hatches as an "ordinary" fish with one eye on each side of the body. The young metamorphose to flatfish when they are about one centimeter long. The upper side is greyish-brown and the underside is white. It grows to a maximum length of about 70 cm (28 in) although this exemplar was about 30 cm (12 in) long. The species is prized as a food fish, being caught mostly by trawling on the seabed.