Marbled flounder

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Marbled flounder
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Shiroshita Karei, Pleuronectes yokohamae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Pleuronectidae
Genus: Pseudopleuronectes
Species:
P. yokohamae
Binomial name
Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae
(Günther, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Pleuronectes yokohamaeGünther, 1877
  • Limanda yokohamae(Günther, 1877)

The marbled flounder, Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on saltwater sand and mud bottoms. Its natural habitat is the temperate coastal waters of the northwestern Pacific, from southern Hokkaido, Japan, to the Yellow Sea, Gulf of Bohai, East China Sea and Korean Peninsula. It can grow up to 45 centimetres (18 in) in length, and its maximum recorded weight is 1.9 kilograms (4.2 lb). [2]

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Diet

The diet of the marbled flounder consists primarily of benthic organisms such as amphipods, polychaetes, shrimps, crabs and other benthos crustaceans. [2]

As food

In Japan, the marbled flounder is found in Beppu Bay, and considered a specialty in the town of Hiji, where it is called shiroshita karei ("under-the-castle flounder"), because it is caught under the waters of Hiji Castle. The town holds an annual flounder festival. It is eaten raw in sashimi, in soups, or deep fried.

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References

  1. Tomiyama, T.; Orlov, A.M.; Volvenko, I.V. & Munroe, T.A. (2021). "Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T158637499A158638126. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T158637499A158638126.en . Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae" in FishBase . August 2011 version.