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Soleidae (Soles)
Etymology: Buglossidium: Greek, boys = an ox + Greek, glossa = tongue (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Risso.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; demersal; depth range 5 - 450 m (Ref. 35388), usually 10 - 40 m (Ref. 4710). Subtropical; 66°N - 21°N, 28°W - 41°E
Eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Scotland southward, also North Sea, Kattegat and Baltic; Mediterranean Sea: including Adriatic, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm 7.9, range 7 - 8 cm
Max length : 20.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 88088); common length : 8.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3397); max. published weight: 53.28 g (Ref. 88088); max. reported age: 13 years (Ref. 32766)
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 65 - 78; Anal soft rays: 49 - 63. Anterior nostril on blind side not enlarged, anterior nostril on eyed side with a backward-pointing tube, reaching to vertical through front margin of lower eye. Pectoral fins on blind side reduced to a single long and 1-2 short fin rays. The supra-temporal branch of lateral lie without tubular scales. Vertebrae 36-38. Scales rectangular, intercanalicular striae strongly curved.
Demersal on sandy bottoms of continental shelf and slope. Feeds on a wide range of bottom-living organisms, mainly crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, cumaceans), bivalve mollusks, and polychaetes (Ref. 3397).
Bauchot, M.-L., 1987. Poissons osseux. p. 891-1421. In W. Fischer, M.L. Bauchot and M. Schneider (eds.) Fiches FAO d'identification pour les besoins de la pêche. (rev. 1). Méditerranée et mer Noire. Zone de pêche 37. Vol. II. Commission des Communautés Européennes and FAO, Rome. (Ref. 3397)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: minor commercial
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 8.1 - 18.8, mean 10.6 °C (based on 734 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00851 (0.00718 - 0.01009), b=3.05 (3.00 - 3.10), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.3 ±0.4 se; based on diet studies.
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.54-0.61; tm=3; tmax=13).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (24 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 170 [59, 359] mg/100g; Iron = 1.17 [0.49, 2.54] mg/100g; Protein = 18.1 [16.3, 20.0] %; Omega3 = 0.228 [0.113, 0.443] g/100g; Selenium = 31.5 [14.9, 70.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 12.7 [3.1, 50.3] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.821 [0.515, 1.252] mg/100g (wet weight);
