Soleidae
Soles | |
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Sand sole, Pegusa lascaris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
Family: | Soleidae Bonaparte, 1832 |
Genera[1] | |
Achiroides |
The true soles are a family, Soleidae, of
brackish water species in the East Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and West and Central Pacific Ocean. Freshwater species are found in Africa, southern Asia, New Guinea
, and Australia.
In the past, soles of the Americas (both fresh and salt water) were included in this family, but they have been separated to their own family, the
Galápagos and Cocos Island.[2]
The true soles are bottom-dwelling fishes feeding on small
genera
and a total of about 180 species.
Soles begin life as
sea floor
, often covered in mud, which in combination with their dark colours, makes them hard to spot.
A flatfish resembling a small
bathyscaphe Trieste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench at a depth around 11 km (36,000 ft).[3] This observation has been questioned by fish experts, and recent authorities do not recognize it as valid.[4]
Many soles are important food species: the
Mediterranean
.
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Unicorn sole, Aesopia cornuta
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Solenette, Buglossidium luteum
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Common sole, Solea solea
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Soleidae.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). "Soleidae" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Aseraggodes herrei" in FishBase. May 2014 version.
- ^ BBC News (23 February 2012). Meet the only man alive who has been to the deepest ocean.. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ Jamieson, A.J., and Yancey, P. H. (2012). On the Validity of the Trieste Flatfish: Dispelling the Myth. The Biological Bulletin 222(3): 171-175