tonguefish


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Synonyms for tonguefish

left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point

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Blackcheek Bay whiff tonguefish Temperature Average Average Month ([degrees]C) No.
Other types of flatfish include sole (family Soleidae) and tonguefishes (family Cynoglossidae).
In Louisiana, Symphurus plagiusa Linnaeus (blackcheek tonguefish) and Citharichthys spilopterus Gunther (bay whiff) metamorphosed at similar temperatures (20[degrees]C and 19[degrees]C, respectively) (5).
First record of reversal in Symphurus vanmelleae (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae), a deep-water tonguefish from the tropical eastern Atlantic.
Comparison of this group of larvae with published descriptions of the early life stages of tonguefish from the eastern Pacific (Evseenko, 1990; Charter and Moser, 1996; Aceves et al., 1999; Evseenko and Shtaut, 2000; and Saldierna-Martinez et al., 2005) indicated that these specimens belonged to a species whose larval development had not been described.
mojarra 5 0 4 Gobiesox strumosus skilletfish 5 14 13 Gobiosorna robustum code goby 36 85 74 Haemulon plumieri white grunt 0 l 0 Hypsoblennius hentz feather blenny 6 8 13 Lagodon rhomboides pinfish 0 7 5 Lupinoblennius nicholsi highfin blenny 0 0 1 Lutjanus griseus gray snapper 1 0 0 Opsanus beta gulf toadfish 1 13 24 Symphurus plagiusa blackcheek tonguefish 1 0 0 Habitat treatments are sand bottom (SB), articulated cleaned shell (CS), and live oyster clusters (LC).
Abstract: The spawning season of the tonguefish Syacium ovale (Gunter 1864) was determined by an analysis of the distribution of preflexion stage larvae in the Gulf of California.
These were replaced during winter by the leopard searobin (Prionotus scitulus), blackcheek tonguefish (Symphurus plagiusa), southern kingfish (Menticirrhus americanus), pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides), and spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
Blackcheek tonguefish (Symphurus plaigusa) was regularly consumed by cobia in North Carolina (Smith, 1995) but was absent from cobia stomachs in Chesapeake Bay.
Firstly, the description of the Trieste fish ranges from "flatfish" to "flounder-like," to "sole," suggesting that the observers were confident that the fish was of the order Pleuronectiformes (dabs, flounders, halibuts, plaice, sole, tonguefishes, turbots, and whiffs) of which there are 570 species, known to live in shallow to moderate depths in arctic, temperate, and tropical localities.
Cynoglossidae: tonguefishes. In Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western Central North Atlantic (W.
Systematics and ecology of tonguefishes of the genus Symphurus (Cynoglossidae : Pleuronectiformes) from the western Atlantic Ocean.