Animalia > Chordata > Pleuronectiformes > Pleuronectidae > Pseudopleuronectes > Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae

Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae (Marbled sole; Marbled flounder)

Synonyms: Limanada yokohamae; Limanda yokohamae; Pleuronectes yokohamae
Language: Japanese; Korean; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The marbled flounder, Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on saltwater sand and mud bottoms. Its natural habitat is the temperate coastal waters of the northwestern Pacific, from southern Hokkaido, Japan, to the Yellow Sea, Gulf of Bohai, East China Sea and Korean Peninsula. It can grow up to 45 centimetres (18 in) in length, and its maximum recorded weight is 1.9 kilograms (4.2 lb).
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sikhote-Alinskiy Biosphere Reserve 978001 Russia  

Prey / Diet

Alpheus brevicristatus (teppo snapping shrimp)[1]
Cirratulus cirratus (bristleworm)[1]
Platynereis bicanaliculata[1]

Predators

Liparis tanakae (Tanaka's snailfish)[1]
Lophius litulon (Anglerfish)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
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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