Psettichthys melanostictus

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Overview

Family : Righteye flounders ; Inhabits sandy bottoms . Feeds on fishes , worms, crustaceans and mollusks[1].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -3,738 meters (0 to -12,264 feet).[2]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 28-Jul-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Psettichthys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. melanostichus (Velvetnose Brotula) · P. melanostictus (West American Sand Sole) · P. sordidus (Mottled Sanddab)

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Further Reading

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• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 47.
• A systematic monograph of the flatfishes (Heterosomata) / By J.R. Norman, &c. London, 1934. url p. 310, p. 327.
• American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture, Boston, L. C. Page[c1903]. url , .
• American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, . by David Starr Jordan...and Barton Warren Evermann...illustrated with colored plates and text drawings, and with photographs from life, by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. url p. 565.
• 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 .
• American food and game fishes: a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann; with photos. from life by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908, c1902. url p. 525, p. 565.
• An annotated list of Puget Sound fishes, Olympia [Wash.]State printer, 1919. url .
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• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 358.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 543.
• Bio-ecology, by Frederic E. Clements. .. and Victor E. Shelford. .. New York, J. Wiley & Sons, inc.;1939. url p. 419.
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Notes

Contributors

• Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• 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)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 136329
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-30880
• Fishbase Species ID: 4255
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13789558
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172928
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCTB18010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 121741

Footnotes

1. Hart, J.L. (1973). Pacific fishes of Canada. Fish. Res. Board Can. Bull. 180:1-740. [back]
2. Mean = -194.630 meters (-638.550 feet), Standard Deviation = 506.130 based on 731 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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