Interesting Facts
Description
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -7 meters (-23 feet).[1]
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:
aspilus
- Scientific name: - Arnoglossus aspilus
- Specific name:
aspilus
- 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
(
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
- A systematic monograph of the flatfishes (Heterosomata) / By J.R. Norman, &c. London, 1934. url p. 187.
- Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 417.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3515464
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2138407
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 22.630 based on 2 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
