Limanda ferruginea

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• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,326 meters (0 to -17,474 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Limanda ferruginea • Limanda ferruginea (Storer) • Limanda oceanica Bonaparte • Limanda vulgaris Gottsche • Platessa ferruginea • Platessa ferruginea Storer • Platessa ferruginea Storer, 1839 • Pleuronectes ferruginaeus (Storer • Pleuronectes ferruginea (Storer • Pleuronectes ferrugineus (Storer • Pleuronectes limandula Bonnaterre

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Storer Rep. Fish. Rept. Birds Massachussetts., 1839.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 09-Nov-1995

Similar Species

Members of the genus Limanda

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. aspera (Yellowfin Sole) · L. ferruginea (Yellowtail Filefish) · L. herzensteini (Littlemouth Flounder) · L. limanda (Garve Fluke) · L. proboscidea (Longhead Dab) · L. punctatissima (Longsnout Flounder) · L. punctatissimus (Dab) · L. sakhalinensis (Sakhalin Sole) · L. schrenki (Cresthead Flounder)

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Further Reading

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• American food and game fishes: A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys of ready identification, life histories and methods of capture New York: Doubleday, Page & co., 1902. url .
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Notes

Contributors

• Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 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.
• Sobel, J. 1996. Pleuronectes ferrugineus. In: IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.redlist.org . Downloaded on 30 January 2005.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vacinity
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: DFO Maritimes Research Vessel Trawl Surveys Fish Observations (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: ECNASAP - East Coast North America Strategic Assessment (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Electronic Atlas of Ichthyoplankton on the Scotian Shelf of North America (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Gulf of Maine Bottom Trawl Survey Data (NEFSC,NMFS,NOAA)(USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NODC WOD01 Plankton Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes (OBIS Canada)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 130815
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-16989
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13779245
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172909
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9336

Footnotes

1. Mean = -237.550 meters (-779.364 feet), Standard Deviation = 537.230 based on 18,211 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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