Animalia > Chordata > Pleuronectiformes > Cynoglossidae > Cynoglossus > Cynoglossus arel

Cynoglossus arel (brown tonguesole; Tonguefish; Macao sole; Largescale tonguesole; Tongue sole; Large-scaly sole)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cynoglossus arel, commonly known as the Largescale tonguesole is a species of tonguefish. It is commonly found in muddy and sandy bottoms of the Indo-West Pacific and Indian Ocean, from the Persian Gulf tp Sri Lanka and Indonesia and as far north as the south coast of Japan, down to depths of 125 metres. The eyed side of the fish is uniform brown, with a dark patch on the gill cover, and its blind side is white.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Prey / Diet

Arcuatula elegans[2]
Paratapes undulatus[2]
Prionospio cirrifera[2]

Predators

Argyrosomus hololepidotus (Southern meagre)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3"Diet Composition of Southern Meagre (Argyrosomus hololepidotus) in Northwest of Persian Gulf", Majid Shekari and Seyed Ahmad Reza Hashemi, American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 12 (10): 1316-1322, 2012
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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