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Hippoglossoides dubius (Flathead flounder)

Synonyms: Hippoglossoides elassodon dubius; Hippoglossoides katakurae
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Wikipedia Abstract

The flathead flounder, Hippoglossoides dubius, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms in shallow coastal waters, at depths of between 10 and 600 metres (33 and 1,969 ft). Its native habitat is the northwestern Pacific, particularly the seas of Japan and Okhotsk, and the coastlines of Kamchatka and Korea. It grows up to 45 centimetres (18 in) in length.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

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

Prey / Diet

Anisarchus macrops (Prickleback)[2]
Eualus macilentus (Greenland shrimp)[2]
Gadus chalcogrammus (Whiting)[2]
Neomysis czerniawskii[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hysterothylacium rigidum[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Effects of hypoxia on principal prey and growth of flathead flounder Hippoglossoides dubius in Funka Bay, Japan, Kimura, Masafumi; Takahashi, Toyomi; Takatsu, Tetsuya; Nakatani, Toshikuni; Maeda, Tatsuaki; Fisheries Science, 70(4): 537-545 (2004)
♦ 3Gibson, 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