title: Laeops
text: # Laeops
  
  Laeops is a genus of small lefteye flounders from the Indo-Pacific. They are mainly found in deep water, although a few species have been recorded shallower than 100 m (330 ft).
  
  ## Species
  
  There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:
  
  * Laeops clarus Fowler, 1934 (Clear fin-base flounder)
  * Laeops cypho Fowler, 1934
  * Laeops gracilis Fowler, 1934 (Philippine slender flounder)
  * Laeops guentheri Alcock, 1890 (Günther's flounder)
  * Laeops kitaharae (H. M. Smith & T. E. B. Pope, 1906)
  * Laeops macrophthalmus (Alcock, 1889)
  * Laeops natalensis Norman, 1931 (Khaki flounder)
  * Laeops nigrescens Lloyd, 1907
  * Laeops nigromaculatus von Bonde, 1922 (Blackspotted flounder)
  * Laeops parviceps Günther, 1880 (Small headed flounder)
  * Laeops pectoralis (von Bonde, 1922) (Longarm flounder)
  * Laeops sinusarabici Chabanaud, 1968
  * Laeops tungkongensis J. S. T. F. Chen & H. T. C. Weng, 1965
  