Overview
Family : Large-tooth flounders ; Lives on muddy-sandy bottoms (Ref. 9330). Commonly caught with trawls in the Gulf of California (Ref. 9330).
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Three-spot flounder, threespot sand flounder
Common Names in French:
Rite ? Trois Taches, Rite , Rite à trois taches
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
枝状弯鲆, 枝狀彎鮃
Common Names in Spanish:
Lenguado, Lenguado de 3 ocelos, Lenguado tres ojos, Lenguado Tres Puntos, lenguado tresojos
Description
Physical Description
Species Ancylopsetta dendritica
Males are commonly 25 cm (Total Length) in length when caught/marketed, but may be as large as 35 cm (Total Length).
Habitat
May be found at depths of 18 to 100 meters.
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -46 meters (0 to -151 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine [2].
Ecology:
This species lives on muddy-sandy substrata
over a depth range
of
7-100m. It feeds
on mobile
invertebrates
and fishes
, and it has pelagic
eggs
and larvae (Hensley 1995, Galven-Magaa et al.
2000).
[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 9 Marine Neritic
- 9.5 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy-Mud [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Pleuronectiformes
()
- Suborder:
Pleuronectoidei
()
-
- Family:
Paralichthyidae
()
- Genus:
Ancylopsetta
()
- Gill, 1864
- Specific name:
dendritica
- Gilbert, 1890
- Scientific name: - the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Service
- Specific name:
dendritica
- Gilbert, 1890
- Genus:
Ancylopsetta
(
- Family:
Paralichthyidae
(
- Suborder:
Pleuronectoidei
(
- Order:
Pleuronectiformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Pseudorhombus dendritica • Pseudorhombus dendritica (Gilbert
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 12-Jul-1995
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ancylopsetta
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. cycloidea (Cyclope Flounder) · A. dendritica (Threespot Sand Flounder) · A. dilecta (Three-By-Two Garfish) · A. kumperae (Foureyed Flounder) · A. ommata (Gulf of Mexico Ocellated Flounder) · A. quadrocellata (Ocellated Flounder)
More Info
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Further Reading
- ... The genera of fishes. .. A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature. By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif., The University, 1917-1920. url p. 481.
- A systematic monograph of the flatfishes (Heterosomata) / By J.R. Norman, &c. London, 1934. url p. 125.
- Contributions to biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1895-1904. url p. 199.
- III.
- Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url p. 2634.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 13 1890 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url , p. 121, p. 646.
- Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 501, p. 501, p. 510.
- Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 224.
- The fishes of Panama Bay, by Charles H. Gilbert and Edwin C. Starks. 1904 San Francisco, The Academy, 1904. url p. 199, p. 218, p. 292, explanation of plate
- The genera of fishes. ..: A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature / By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1917-1920. url p. 481.
- The marine fishes of Panama. by Seth E. Meek and Samuel F. Hildebrand; Wilfred H. Osgood, editor 15 1928 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1928 url p. 758, p. 971, p. 972.
Notes
Contributors
- Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
- American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Nielsen, J.G., Munroe, T., Tyler, J., Bussing, W. 2010. Ancylopsetta dendritica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 119956
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-32725
- Fishbase Species ID: 8225
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 616224
- IUCN ID: 191037
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 101737
Footnotes
- Mean = -9.000 meters (-29.528 feet), Standard Deviation = 52.330 based on 2 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Nielsen, J.G., Munroe, T., Tyler, J., Bussing, W. 2010. Ancylopsetta dendritica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
