Olive flounder

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Artwork of olive flounder
Real-world info
Name: Paralichthys olivaceus
(olive flounder)

Family: Paralichthyidae (large-tooth flounders)
Main appearances

Other appearances
Names in other languages
 ヒラメ
 넙치
 Sogliola
 Flunder
 比目鱼
 Cardeau
 Rodaballo
 Bot
 比目魚
 Cardeau
 Rodaballo
 Ложный палтус

The olive flounder is a fish in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Doubutsu no Mori e+. It appears as a large shadow (medium in City Folk, very large in New Horizons) in the sea all day long, all year long. It is very similar in appearance to the dab, another saltwater fish, which is even joked about by the player in its catch quotes in Wild World and New Leaf respectively.

Catch details[edit]

In Doubutsu no Mori e+[edit]

#43
Olive flounder
"ひらめを つり・・・ だよな? カレイなの?"
Translation: "I caught a flounder... Isn't it? Or is it a dab?"
Olive flounder
Time of year[nb 1] Feb 24 - Dec 31
Time of day All day
Location Sea
Shadow size Large
Selling price  200 Bells
Feng shui None
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In Wild World[edit]

#47

Olive flounder
"I caught a dab! Oh wait... Are you an olive flounder? Oh, yeah, you are, aren't you?"

Description Their eyes are in the middle when they are born, then move to either side as they mature.
Time of year All year
Time of day All day
Peak times Nov – Mar
Location Sea
Shadow size Large
Fish size 80 cm
Selling price  800 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In City Folk[edit]

#52

Olive flounder
"I caught an olive flounder! Hey, flatty bo batty!"

Description These look like dabs, but the eyes migrate after birth to the left side.
Time of year All year
Time of day All day
Peak times N/A
Location Sea
Shadow size Medium
Fish size About 32 in.
Selling price  800 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In New Leaf[edit]

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the olive flounder is used for the Soup de Poisson and Olive Flounder Meunière recipes for the Harvest Festival.

#57

Olive flounder
"I caught a dab... Huh? Just kidding! It's an olive flounder! Make up your mind, fishy!"

Time of year All year
Time of day All day
Peak times Nov – Mar
Location Sea
Tortimer Island
Shadow size Large
Fish size 80 cm
Selling price  800 Bells
Furniture size 1.0 x 1.0


In Pocket Camp[edit]

The olive flounder is one of the 14 fish in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp that has been in the game since its release.

#3

Olive flounder

Availability Currently available (since March 26, 2024)
  • 2017-10-25 – 2019-08-20
  • 2019-12-27 – 2020-06-29
  • 2020-12-28 – 2021-06-29
  • 2021-12-24 – 2022-09-19
  • 2023-03-23 – 2023-06-28
Location Saltwater Shores PC Map Icon.png Saltwater Shores
Shadow size Large
Size 66.8 cm – 93.2 cm
Rarity
Selling price  10 Bells
Version added 0.9.0
Villager gift data Tier: 1 (Common)

Rewards:

  •  100 Bells
  • +2 Heart PC Icon.png Friendship points


In New Horizons[edit]

In New Horizons, an Olive Flounder can be used as an ingredient for Franklin to cook the Fish Meunière dish on Turkey Day.

#62

Olive flounder
"I caught an olive flounder! That's not the pits!"

Time of year North: All year
South: All year
Time of day All day
Location Sea
Shadow size Very large
Rarity Common
Spawn requirement Appears from the start of the game
Selling prices  Nook's Cranny 800 Bells
 C.J. 1,200 Bells
Furniture size 2.0 x 1.0


Use in cooking[edit]

Olive flounder is used as a cooking ingredient in the cooking recipes for the following items:

Recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

# Item Image Type Buy price Available from Materials
853 Sautéed olive flounder sautéed olive flounder Savory Not for sale  Fishing
Olive flounder
Skinny mushroom
924 Olive-flounder meunière olive-flounder meunière Savory  9,800 Bells  Turkey Day Recipes
Olive flounder
Flour
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Donating to the museum[edit]

As with all bugs and fish in the Animal Crossing series, the olive flounder can be donated to the museum by talking to Blathers. During a donation, Blathers will tell the player a bit about the donation. Below is what he has to say.

In Doubutsu no Mori e+[edit]


In Wild World[edit]

Blathers has this to say about the olive flounder in Animal Crossing: Wild World:

"For some time, I was convinced that olive flounder tasted of olives. It turned out that it was a rather elaborate joke played upon me... I should have known there are no such things as flounder olives, either!"

In City Folk[edit]

Upon donating the olive flounder in Animal Crossing: City Folk, Blathers will say the following dialogue:

"Olive flounders are masters of self-transformation... who, I'm told, can grow to almost 40 inches (a meter) long. That's like some sort of underwater bath mat! It's a good thing you caught this one while it's still young!"

It can be found in the tank at the back of the aquarium, hiding underneath the sand, with other sea fish.

In New Leaf[edit]

The information board in front of the tank that holds the olive flounder says the following:

"Olive flounders are rather flexible whitefish that have both eyes on the left side of their body. They can reach three feet in length and are commonly mistaken for dabs, a close relative. When young, they have an eye on each side, but as they age, their right eye migrates to their left side. These carnivorous fish can change color to camouflage themselves on the seabed as they wait for prey."

In New Horizons[edit]

When donating to Blathers or selecting "Tell me about this!" in New Horizons, he will provide the following information about the fish:

"Did you know that the olive flounder is the same shape as other fish when it hatches? But as it grows, it gets both wider and flatter and can reach some three feet long. These flat fish spend much of their lives buried under the sandy ocean floor, waiting for prey to happen by. Imagine the surprise for said prey when they strike. It would be as if your kitchen floor were to bite you."

Fishing Tourney[edit]

During a Fishing Tourney, when given an olive flounder, Chip will say the following dialogue.

In City Folk[edit]

"I like to go with a spicy, blackened filet with olive flounder. So should you. Nyuuuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!"

In New Leaf[edit]

"Olive flounder—BOY, are they tasty! In fact, I'm just gonna go ahead and scarf this guy down right this very second! I can hardly wait! YUM!"

Gallery[edit]

Real-world information[edit]

A real olive flounder

The olive flounder is an Asian flatfish that occupies a large area of Asian flatfish taken for commercial reasons. Hirame (平目 / ヒラメ) as it is called in Japan or (광어 Korea Flatfish) as it is known in Korea is widely raised in aquaculture in China, Korea, and Japan as a food fish. It is a very large type of flatfish that can be well over a meter in length which is far larger than most other species that typically never reach more than 30 cm.

Names in other languages[edit]

Japanese ヒラメ
hirame
Olive flounder

Korean 넙치
neopchi
Olive flounder

Simplified Chinese 比目鱼
bǐmùyú
Flatfish

Traditional Chinese 比目魚
Unknown

Russian Ложный палтус
Lozhnyy paltus
Olive flounder
(lit. "false halibut")

Dutch Bot European flounder

German Flunder Flounder

European Spanish Rodaballo Turbot

European French Cardeau Paralichthys

Italian Sogliola Sole

Notes[edit]

  1. All bugs and fish in the first-generation games can appear at a lower spawn rate up to five days before the start of their first month of availability.