Animalia > Chordata > Pleuronectiformes > Pleuronectidae > Dexistes > Dexistes rikuzenius

Dexistes rikuzenius (Rikuzen flounder; Rikuzen sole)

Synonyms: Araias ariommus
Language: Japanese; Korean; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The Rikuzen flounder, Dexistes rikuzenius, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on sandy and muddy bottoms in temperate waters at depths of between 42 and 200 metres (138 and 656 ft). Its native habitat is the northwestern Pacific, particularly the Sea of Japan and the coastlines of Japan and Korea. It grows up to 22 centimetres (8.7 in) in length.
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Prey / Diet

Euphausia pacifica (Pacific krill)[1]
Oregonia gracilis (graceful decorator crab)[2]
Podocatactes hamifer[2]
Themisto japonica[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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.
♦ 2Diets 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
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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