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Citharichthys sordidus (Sanddab; Pacific sanddab; Mottled sanddab)

Synonyms: Metoponops cooperi; Psettichthys sordidus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Pacific sanddab (Citharichthys sordidus) is a species of flatfish. It is by far the most common sanddab, and it shares its habitat with the longfin sanddab (C. xanthostigma) and the speckled sanddab (C. stigmaeus). It is a medium-sized flatfish, with a light brown color mottled brown or black, occasionally with white or orange spots. It is an opportunistic predator, feeding on a variety of crustaceans, as well as smaller fish, squid, and octopuses.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary   California, United States
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge IV 352 California, United States
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve II 366714 British Columbia, Canada
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Amaeana occidentalis[1]
Doryteuthis opalescens (california market squid)[2]
Euphausia pacifica (Pacific krill)[3]
Magelona sacculata[1]
Onuphis elegans[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Entobdella hippoglossi[9]
Lacistorhynchus dollfusi[9]
Lecithochirium magnatestis[9]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1PACIFIC AND SPECKLED SANDDABS, Joseph P. Rackowski and Ellen K. Pikitch, Biological Report 82(11.107), US Fish and Wildlife Service (1989)
♦ 2CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 3FEEDING HABITS OF DOVER SOLE, MICROSTOMUS PACIFICUS; REX SOLE, GLYPTOCEPHALUS ZACHIRUS; SLENDER SOLE, LYOPSETTA EXILIS; AND PACIFIC SANDDAB, CITHARICHTHYS SORDIDUS, IN A REGION OF DIVERSE SEDIMENTS AND BATHYMETRY OFF OREGON, William G. Pearcy, Danil Hancock, Fish Bull. 76(3):641-651 (1978)
♦ 4Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Ecological Informatics 29(1): 45-56. Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Data from: Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 5Arctocephalus townsendi, Rebecca L. Belcher and Thomas E. Lee, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 700, pp. 1–5 (2002)
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 8Food habits of the longnose skate, Raja rhina (Jordan and Gilbert, 1880), in central California waters, Heather J. Robinson, Gregor M. Cailliet, David A. Ebert, Environ Biol Fish (2007) 80:165–179
♦ 9Gibson, 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