page_title: Flounder
hierarchical_section_title: Flounder
context_page_description: Flounder are a group of flatfish species. They live at the bottom of coastal lagoons and estuaries of the Northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. When flounder are hatched they have one eye on each side of its head. As they grow one eye moves until they have both eyes on the same side of the head.
context_section_description: Flounder are a group of flatfish species.  They live at the bottom of coastal lagoons and estuaries of the Northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  When flounder are hatched they have one eye on each side of its head.  As they grow one eye moves until they have both eyes on the same side of the head.
caption: Winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus
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