Overview
Family : Lefteye flounders ; Inhabits sand , mud , and gravel bottoms [1]. Feeds on benthic animals[2].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Crested flounder, Large-crested lefteye flounder, largecrested flounder
Common Names in Japanese:
Niten-nagadarumagarei
Common Names in Malay:
Sebelah
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
長冠羊舌鮃, 长冠羊舌鲆, 馬爾亨擬鮃, 馬爾亨羊舌鮃, 马尔亨拟鲆, 马尔亨羊舌鲆
Common Names in Tagalog:
Dapang bilog
Description
Habitat
May be found at depths of 18 to 141 meters.
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -2,223 meters (0 to -7,293 feet).[3]
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:
macrolophus
- Regan, 1908
- Scientific name: - Arnoglossus macrolophus Alcock, 1889 Regan, 1908
- Specific name:
macrolophus
- Regan, 1908
- 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 tapeinosoma (Bleeker • Parabothus malhensis • Parabothus malhensis (Regan, 1908)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Alcock, A.W. Natural history notes
from H.M.'s
Indian marine
survey streamer
'Investigator, '... - No. 10. List
of the Pleuronectidae obtained in the Bay
of Bengal in 1888 and 1889,
with descriptions
of new and rare species. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal
58(pt
. 2, no. 3):279-295., 1889.
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
- Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 9 1913 Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal. url p. 348.
- The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 433, p. 433.
- The natural history of animals: the animal life of the world in its various aspects and relations, London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1903-04. url .
Notes
Contributors
- Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
- 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 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- 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 05, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 143738
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-11214
- Fishbase Species ID: 13064
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172814
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 103070
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]
- Pollard, D.A. (1989). Introduced marine and estuarine fishes in Australia. p. 47-60. In D.A. Pollard. ed. Introduced and translocated fishes and their ecological effects. Proceedings of the Australian Society for Fish Biology Workshop No. 8. Magnetic ... [back]
- Mean = -711.610 meters (-2,334.678 feet), Standard Deviation = 923.680 based on 18 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
