Sand sole

For the unrelated Pacific species, see Pacific sand sole.
Sand sole
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Soleidae
Genus: Pegusa
Species: P. lascaris
Binomial name
Pegusa lascaris
(Risso, 1810)
Synonyms
  • Pleuronectes lascaris Risso, 1810
  • Solea lascaris (Risso, 1810)
  • Solea scriba Valenciennes, 1837
  • Solea brasiliensis Kaup, 1858
  • Solea aurantiaca Günther, 1862
  • Solea auriantiaca Günther, 1862
  • Solea vermeuleni Metzelaar, 1919

Sand sole (Pegusa lascaris) is a fish species in the Soleidae family. Widespread in the north-eastern and south-eastern Atlantic, to the Gulf of Guinea in South, also in the Mediterranean Sea.[1] Recorded in the Suez Canal.[2] Sometime it is mentioned for the Black Sea and Sea of Azov,[3] but mistakly because it is inhabited by another species, Blackhand sole, which was considered as subspecies Pegusa lascaris nasuta (now as different species).[4] Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 40 cm long.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Ben-Tuvia, A., 1990. A taxonomic reappraisal of the Atlanto-Mediterranean soles Solea solea, S. senegalensis and S. lascaris. J. Fish Biol. 36(6): 947–960.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Pegusa lascaris" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  4. ↑ Vasilyeva E.D. (2007) Fishes of the Black Sea, VNIRO, Moscow, 238 pp. (in Russian)