Pacific Ocean Babies
Babies of a Sand Sole
Psettichthys melanostictus (Girard)
Gallery of Baby Fish

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5.5 mm size of the Sand Sole
Top,
right side view; Bottom, left side view.

7.5 mm size of the Sand Sole
Top,
right side view; Bottom, left side view.

DATA ABOUT SPECIMENS

Specimens caught: 2 April, 1972.
Collection Site: Broken Island Group, Barkley Sound, Pacific Ocean, British Columbia, Canada.
Collection Depth: Daylight, near-surface depths.
Collection Method: Ten-minute tows of a conical, fine-mesh townet.
Collector: John Dobrocky, Dobrocky Seatech, Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia.
Illustration left: Copyright, 2000, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Pacific Ocean Babies