Animalia > Chordata > Pleuronectiformes > Pleuronectidae > Tanakius > Tanakius kitaharae

Tanakius kitaharae (Willowy flounder)

Synonyms: Glyptocephalus kitaharae; Glyptocephalus kitaharai; Microstomus kitaharae; Microstomus kitaharai; Tanakius kitaharai
Language: Japanese; Korean; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The Willowy flounder, Tanakius kitaharae, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of between 100 and 200 metres (330 and 660 ft). Its native habitat is the temperate waters of the Western Pacific, from Southern Hokkaido in Japan to the Gulf of Bohai, the East China Sea and Taiwan. It can grow up to 30 centimetres (12 in) in length.
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Prey / Diet

Oregonia gracilis (graceful decorator crab)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Cephaloscyllium umbratile (Swell shark)[2]
Galeus nipponensis (Broadfin sawtail catshark)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lecithocladium dongshanense[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diets of the demersal fishes on the shelf off Iwate, northern Japan, T. Fujita, D. Kitagawa, Y. Okuyama, Y. Ishito, T. Inada, Y. Jin, Marine Biology (1995) 123:219-233
♦ 2Aspects of Reproduction and Food Habits of the Japanese Swellshark Cephaloscyllium umbratile from Chosi, Japan, Toru Taniuchhi, Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 54(4), 627-633 (1988)
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0