Overview
Family : Soles ; Inhabits mud or sand bottoms . Feeds on a wide range of small bottom-living organisms , mainly crustaceans (amphipods , shrimps), also polychaete worms and bivalve mollusks[1]. Utilized as a food fish .
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Albanian:
Gjuhez brezake
Common Names in Catalan:
Llenguado pelut
Common Names in Croatian:
List prugavac
Common Names in Danish:
Båndet Tunge, Stribet tunge
Common Names in English:
Bastard sole, Lucky sole, thickback sole, variegated sole
Common Names in Finnish:
Paksuselk, Paksuselkäantura
Common Names in French:
Sole-perdix commune, Sole-Perdrix Panach
Common Names in German:
Bastardzunge, Dickr, Dickrückenzunge
Common Names in Greek:
Zonoglosa, Γλώσσα, Ζωνόγλωσσα
Common Names in Greek, Modern:
Zonoglosa, Ζωνόγλωσσα
Common Names in Greek, Modern (1453):
Zonoglosa, Ζωνόγλωσσα
Common Names in Italian:
Lingua di cane, Linguatedda, Palaja de fango, Sfogieto co le fasse, Sogliola fasciata, Sogliola variegata
Common Names in Maltese:
Lingwata tar-rigi
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
杂色短臂鳎, 杂色鳎, 雜色短臂鰨, 雜色鰨
Common Names in Polish:
Pregatka
Common Names in Portuguese:
Azevia Ra, Azevia raïada, Azevia-raiada
Common Names in Russian:
Goljan
Common Names in Serbian:
List prugavac
Common Names in Slovene:
Progasti list
Common Names in Slovenian:
Progasti list
Common Names in Spanish:
Golleta, Lenguado, Lenguao, Soldada
Common Names in Turkish:
Lekelidil balığı
Description
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,774 meters (0 to -12,382 feet).[2]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Order:
Pleuronectiformes
()
- Family:
or sand bottoms. Feeds on a wide range
of small
()
- Genus:
Microchirus
()
- Bonaparte, 1833
- Specific name:
variegatus
- Scientific name: - Microchirus variegatus (Donovan, 1808)
- Specific name:
variegatus
- Genus:
Microchirus
(
- Family:
or sand bottoms. Feeds on a wide range
of small
(
- Order:
Pleuronectiformes
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Synonyms
Microchirus (Microchirus) variegatus (Donovan, 1808) • Microchirus variegatus • Monochirus lingula Costa • Monochirus variegatus (Donovan • Pleuronectes fasciatus Nardo • Pleuronectes mangili Risso • Pleuronectes microchirus Delaroche • Pleuronectes variegatus • Pleuronectes variegatus Donovan • Pleuronectes variegatus Donovan, 1808 • Solea variegata (Donovan
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Donovan, E. The natural history of British insects;
explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their
transformations
, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the
history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope,
the whole illustrated by coloured figures
, designed and executed
from living specimens. F.C. & J. Rivington, London 1-?.,
1808.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 05-Mar-1994
Similar Species
Members of the genus Microchirus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. azevia (Ornate Climbing Perch) · M. boscanion (Lusitanian Sole) · M. frechkopi (Frechkop's Sole) · M. ocellatus (Foureyed Sole) · M. theophila (Bastard Sole) · M. variegatus (Variegated Sole) · M. wittei (Banded Sole)
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Further Reading
- A treatise on the common sole (Solea vulgaris), considered both as an organism and as a commodity / prepared for the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom; by J.T. Cunningham. Plymouth: The Association, 1890. url p. 25.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 152, p. 153, p. 198.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 233, p. 236, p. 290, p. 296, p. 454, p. 477, p. 484, p. 497, p. 654, p. 77.
- Oceanic ichthyology: a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers "Blake, " "Albatross, " and "Fishhawk" in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas con by George Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. Pub. in connection with the National Museum and the Smithsonian institution. 22 1896 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1896. url p. 536.
- Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 664.
- Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1848-1916. url p. 536.
- Special bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1892- url p. 536.
- The Trematoda of British fishes. London, Sold by B. Quaritch, 1947. url p. 356.
- The fishes of Great Britain and Ireland / Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1880-1884. url p. 43.
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 December 20, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, A comparison of benthic biodiversity in the North Sea, English Channel and Celtic Seas
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies - Trawl Surveys
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
- Senckenberg, Collection Pisces
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
- held by MarLIN.
- University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 131869
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-22728
- Fishbase Species ID: 32
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 173026
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 116649
Footnotes
- Quéro, J.-C., M. Desoutter and F. Lagardère (1986). Soleidae. p. 1308-1324. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 3. [back]
- Mean = -196.800 meters (-645.669 feet), Standard Deviation = 569.000 based on 932 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
