Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Syacium ovale
lenguado pega-pega, lenguado, lenguado oval, lenguado ovalado, Oval flounder
Size> To lengths of 21 cm. Color variable, from more or less uniform brown, to brown with numerous ocellated white spots which may extend onyo median fins.
Habitat: Uncommon. Known from a single fish taken in Tagus Cove, Isabela.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Pleuronectiformes
Suborder
Pleuronectoidei
Family
Paralichthyidae
Genus
Syacium
Species
ovale
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Pacific, from Magdalena Bay on the outer coast of Baja California and the Gulf of California to Peru, and Cocos, Revillagigedos, and Galapagos. Gulf of California to Colombia.
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Grove, J.S. Lavenberg, R.J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 862 pp.
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Syacium ovale", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7811. Accessed 31 October 2026.