Bothid vs Bothie - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bothid and bothie

is that bothid is (zoology) any species of the lefteye flounder family bothidae while bothie is a bothy.

bothid

English

Noun

(en noun)

(zoology) Any species of the lefteye flounder family Bothidae.

* 1978 , US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Services, Development of Fishes of the Mid-Atlantic Bight , [page 125],

Accepting this classification, the bothids can be distinguished from the pleuronectids and the soles by usually having both eyes on the left side of the head.

* 1994 , G. H. Burgess, S. H. Smith, E. D. Lane, 11: Fishes of the Cayman Islands'', M. A. Brunt, J. E. Davies (editors), ''The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography , Volume 71, page 222,

Bothids are left-eyed flounders, that is, both eyes are found on the left side of the adults after metamorphosing from the more traditional one-eye-per-side mode as post-larvae.

* 1997 , S. J. Blaber, Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries , page 106,

Among the flatfish, bothids are mainly found in deeper, less muddy situations while cynoglossids occur in shallower muddy areas.