Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus

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• Notes

Overview

Family : Righteye flounders ; Feeds mainly on polychaetes and amphipods (Ref. 27301).

Common Names

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Description

Family Pleuronectidae

Chiefly marine ; occasionally brackish ; rare in freshwater . Distribution: Arctic , Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Both eyes normally on the right side. Preoperculum with a free margin . Fins without spines. Dorsal fin extends on head . Swimbladder absent in adults . The pigmented side is capable of remarable color changes in order to match the bottom . Predators of benthic invertebrates and fishes . Pelagic spawners. Eggs without oil globule in yolk . Benthic, from a few to more than 1,000 m. Almost all species important to fisheries. Cooper and Chapleau (1998; Ref. 30193) exclude the subfamilies Poecilopsettinae, Rhombosoleinae, and Paralichthodinae.The family Pleuronectidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) and the Order Pleuronectiformes. It contains 39 genera and 93 species. It may be found in Marine, Brackish, and Freshwater environments and is primarily Marine. Members of this family are not used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is anguilliform . Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be normal. Members of this family have been dated back to the Eocene epoch of the Tertiary period. Etymology of this family name : Greek, pleura = side, ribe + Greek, nekton = swimmer

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,075 meters (0 to -16,650 feet).Mean = -96.650 meters (-317.093 feet), Standard Deviation = 160.980 based on 5,347 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biome: Saltwater . Demersal .

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Pleuronectes pallasii Steindachner, 1879

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pleuronectes

There are approximately 34 species in this genus:

P. asper (Yellowfin Sole) · P. angustirostris · P. aspera · P. asperrimus · Lepidopsetta bilineata · P. decurrens · P. fenginea · P. ferrugineus · P. ferugineus · P. flessus italicus · P. flesus albino · P. flesus baltica · P. flesus caninensis · P. flesus leiurus · P. flesus luscus · P. flesus septentrionalis · P. flesus trachurus · P. glaber · P. glacialis caninensis · Arnoglossus thori · P. italiens · P. laevigatus · P. limanda · Bothus podas · P. mascinus · P. megastoma · P. moseri · P. pacificus · P. pallasi · P. platessa (European Plaice) · P. platessa baltica · P. plattessa · P. quadrituberculatus (Alaska Plaice) · P. zachirus

Bibliography

• Allen, M.J. and G.B. Smith (1988). Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 66, 151 p.
• Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. ISBN: 0-940228-47-5.
• Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino (1984). The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1 (text). Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text), 370 pls.
• Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al. 1980. A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 174.

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Notes

Contributors

• Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 20, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• Alaska Ocean Observing System: Arctic Ocean Diversity
• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NODC WOD01 Plankton Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: North Pacific Groundfish Observer (North Pacific Research Board)
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2499499
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-30864
• Fishbase Species ID: 4250
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13550778
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172901
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 121102

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