Overview
Family : Lefteye flounders ; Inhabits coral-sand bottoms . Feeds on benthic animals[1].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Long lefteye flounder, Slender flounder
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
長體羊舌鮃, 长体羊舌鲆
Common Names in Tagalog:
Dapang bilog
Description
Habitat
May be found at depths of 100 to 224 meters.
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -2,223 meters (0 to -7,293 feet).[2]
Biome: Marine .
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:
Bothidae
()
- Genus:
Arnoglossus
()
- Bleeker, 1862
- Specific name:
elongatus
- Weber, 1913
- Scientific name: - Arnoglossus elongatus Weber, 1913
- Specific name:
elongatus
- Weber, 1913
- Genus:
Arnoglossus
(
- Family:
Bothidae
(
- 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
Arnoglossus elongatus Weber
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Weber, M.
and L.F. de Beaufort The fishes
of
the Indo-Australian Archipelago
. II.- Malacopterygii, Myctophoidea,
Ostariophysi
: I.- Siluroidea. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 404 p., 1913.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 27-Oct-1995
Similar Species
Members of the genus Arnoglossus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. arabicus (Arabian Flounder) · A. aspilos (Spotless Lefteye Flounder) · A. aspilos aspilos (Spotless Lefteye Flounder) · A. bassensis (Bass Strait Flounder) · A. bleekeri (Bleeker's Flounder) · A. brunneus (Brown Lefteye Flounder) · A. capensis (Cape Scaldfish) · A. dalgleishi (East Coast Flounder) · A. debilis (Weak Lefteye Flounder) · A. elongatus (Long Lefteye Flounder) · A. fisoni (Fison's Lefteye Flounder) · A. imperialis (Imperial Scaldfish) · A. intermedius (Intermediate Flounder) · A. japonicus (Japanese Lefteye Flounder) · A. kessleri (Scaldback) · A. laterna (Mediterranean Scaldfish) · A. macrolepis (Twospot Largescale Flounder) · A. macrolophus (Large-Crested Lefteye Flounder) · A. muelleri (Mueller's Flounder) · A. oxyrhynchus (Sharp-Snout Lefteye Flounder) · A. polylepis (Manyscaled Flounder) · A. polyspilus (Many-Spotted Lefteye Flounder) · A. rueppelii (R?ppell's Scaldback) · A. scapha (Megrim) · A. spilurus (Large-Crested Lefteye Flounder) · A. tapeinosoma (Large-Crested Lefteye Flounder) · A. tenuis (Dwarf Lefteye Flounder) · A. thori (Grohmann´s Scaldfish) · A. waitei (Waite's Lefteye Flounder)
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Further Reading
- Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. and P.J. Kailola (1984). Trawled fishes of southern Indonesia and northwestern Australia. Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Australia, Directorate General of Fishes, Indonesia, and German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Fe
- Hensley, D.A. and K. Amaoka (1997). Bothidae. Lefteye flounders. p. 3799-3841. In K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes
- Weber, M. and L.F. de Beaufort The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II.- Malacopterygii, Myctophoidea, Ostariophysi: I.- Siluroidea. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 404 p., 1913.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 120721
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-35255
- Fishbase Species ID: 12561
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13534714
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 616231
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 103064
Footnotes
- Hensley, D.A. and K. Amaoka (1997). Bothidae. Lefteye flounders. p. 3799-3841. In K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes [back]
- Mean = -249.860 meters (-819.751 feet), Standard Deviation = 451.320 based on 49 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
