Animalia > Chordata > Pleuronectiformes > Scophthalmidae > Lepidorhombus > Lepidorhombus boscii

Lepidorhombus boscii (Whiff; Megrim; Fourspotted megrim; Fourspot scaldfish; Four-spot megrim; Fourspot megrim; Flounder; Four-spotted scaldfish)

Synonyms: Arnoglossus boscii; Hippoglossus boscii; Lepidorhombus bosci; Pleuronectes boscii; Rhombus boscii
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Wikipedia Abstract

The four-spot megrim (Lepidorhombus boscii) is a species of flatfish in the Scophthalmidae family. It is found a depths between 7 and 800 m (23 and 2,625 ft) in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean. It can be separated from its close relative, the megrim or whiff (L. whiffiagonis), by the dark spots towards the rear of the fins. It reaches a length of 40 cm (16 in).
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Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Raja brachyura (Blond ray)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anisakis pegreffii[5]
Bothriocephalus scorpii[5]
Hysterothylacium rigidum[5]
Lecithochirium grandiporum[5]

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.
♦ 2Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 3Diet, growth and reproduction of four flatfishes on the Portuguese coast, CÉLIA M. TEIXEIRA, MARISA I. BATISTA and HENRIQUE N. CABRAL, Scientia Marina 74(2) June 2010, 223-233
♦ 4Diet comparison of four ray species (Raja clavata, Raja brachyura, Raja montagui and Leucoraja naevus) caught along the Portuguese continental shelf, Inês Farias, Ivone Figueiredo, Teresa Moura, Leonel Serrano Gordo, Ana Neves and Bárbara Serra-Pereira, Aquat. Living Resour. 19, 105–114 (2006)
♦ 5Gibson, 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