Talk:Flounder

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This page is not a particularly scientific one. Cheese 18:49, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Maybe not, but how should we change it? Perhaps we could add information from the FishBase database? Also, someone commented that the page should "contain less cooking instructions". I think the recipe is cool, personally, since it´s from 1881. Seems to provide a peek at how widespread flounder consumption was in the 19th century? Jeeves 22:13, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

But it isn't a good recipe, it is too brief. And any recipes don't belong to an encyclopedia article because they are do-it-yourself material. Wikipedia isn't a cookbook. -Hapsiainen 21:44, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

"Maybe not, but how should we change it?": More about the flounder's physiology would be useful. The brief mention of metamorphosis only brings more questions to mind: Do all flounders display this asymmetry? Do all members of a specific species end up rotating to the same side? Is the change purely physical, or is there an underlying neurological change as well (i.e. after metamorphosis, do the optical centers of the brain display bilateral symmetry, or have they rearranged themselves as well)? How about the motor-control sections of the brain? Does the fish swim upright before metamorphosis? Do changes in swimming orientation occur slowly as the metamorphosis takes place? How do the continual shifts in depth perception that must occur throughout their metamorphosis affect their movement and behavior? Are they predators before the metamorphosis? How do their physical changes affect how they feed? Is the time of metamorphosis a time of physical awkwardness and/or vulnerability? (Some of these questions are answered or alluded to in the Flatfish article, but I think the Flounder article and the subject as a whole would benefit from either content or links that address these questions.) 71.193.182.174 (talk) 17:57, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...I was halfway expecting to read "This article brought to you by the National Fishing Association" at the bottom of the page... --James 00:42, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know if fluke is another word for flounder (or otherwise closely related)? If so, please mention it in the article and add a link on the disambiguation page fluke. Ncik 06 Mar 05

Flounder at 10.9 kilometers below sea level

In an unprecedented dive, the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste reached the bottom of [Mariana Trench (10,911m)] at 1:06 pm on January 23, 1960 with U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. Iron shot was used for ballast, with gasoline for buoyancy. The onboard systems indicated a depth of 37,800 ft (11,521 m), but this was later revised to 35,813 ft (10,916 m). At the bottom Walsh and Piccard were surprised to discover soles or flounder about one foot (30 cm) long, as well as shrimp. According to Piccard, "The bottom appeared light and clear, a waste of firm diatomaceous ooze".

Interwiki's

The interwiki's are incorrect, a lot of them direct to a specific genus (Platichthys flesus), which is not an article in here yet. Dryke 14:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

I removed this picture from the page. I'm pretty sure that it is not a flounder, but some other sort of flatfish. According to the range in the page, the shouldn't be flounders in Hawaii Kjaergaard 12:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Flounder vs. Fluke

First the article goes:

Flounder (rarely: flukes)

suggesting these are synonyms, but then the article states:

While flounders have both eyes situated on one side of the head, flukes are not born this way.

positing an ontological distinction. This is confusing, please do something about it. Shinobu (talk) 08:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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what do they eat????????????????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.240.70 (talk) 20:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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new jersey and 18 inches - how old is an 18 inch flounder - thanks tom - email - tomasics@hotmail.com with answer

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