| Soleidae (Soles) |
| 16.4 cm TL (male/unsexed); max. reported age: 13 years |
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demersal; depth range 5 - 450 m |
| Eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Scotland southward, also North Sea, Kattegat and Baltic. Mediterranean Sea: including Adriatic, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus. |
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Dorsal spines (total): 0-0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 65-78; Anal soft rays: 49-63. Anterior nostril on blind side not enlarged, anterior nostril on eyed side with a backward-pointing tube, reaching to vertical through front margin of lower eye. Pectoral fins on blind side reduced to a single long and 1-2 short fin rays. The supra-temporal branch of lateral lie without tubular scales. Vertebrae 36-38. Scales rectangular, intercanalicular striae strongly curved. |
| Demersal on sandy bottoms of continental shelf and slope. Feeds on a wide range of bottom-living organisms, mainly crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, cumaceans), bivalve mollusks, and polychaetes (Ref. 3397). |
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(Ref. 96402)
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| harmless |
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