Solenette
📖 Overview
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 .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 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.: short and / or deep; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Solenette is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Solenette is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; demersal; depth range 5 - 450 m , usually 10 - 40 m . Subtropical; 66°N - 21°N, 28°W - 41°E North Sea, Kattegat and Baltic; Mediterranean Sea: including Adriatic, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus.
🌿 Ecology
a wide range of bottom-living organisms, mainly crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, cumaceans), bivalv
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Solenette · Yellow Sole |
| 🏳️Catalan | llenguado menut · palaí xic |
| 🌍CES | Jazyk žlutý · jazyk žlutavý |
| 🌍CYM | Lledod Melyn Bach · lleden felen fach |
| 🇩🇰Danish | Glastunge |
| 🇩🇪German | Zwergzunge |
| 🌍ELL | Γλώσσα · Κιτρινόγλωσσα |
| 🇫🇮Finnish | Pikkukielikampela · anturainen |
| 🇫🇷French | Petite sole jaune · petite sole jaune, solenette · sole jaune · solenette |
| 🌍HEB | סולית צהובה |
| 🇭🇷Croatian | List piknjavac |
| 🇮🇹Italian | Sogliola gialla |
| 🌍MLT | Ingwata safra · Lingwata safra |
| 🇳🇱Dutch | Dwergtong |
| 🌍NNO | glasstunge |
| 🌍NOB | glasstunge |
| 🇳🇴Norwegian | Glasstunge |
| 🇵🇱Polish | Soletka |
| 🇵🇹Portuguese | Língua-de-gato |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Желтая солея · Малый морской язык |
| 🌍SLV | Pritlikavi list |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Acevia · Lenguado Amarillo · Tambor · Tambor Sudafricano |
| 🌍SQI | Gjuhez e verdhe · gjuhëza e verdhë · gjuhëza e vogël |
| 🇸🇪Swedish | Småtunga |
| 🌍TUR | kucuk dil baligi |
| 🌍UKR | Жовта солія · Солія жовта |
Scientific Synonyms
| Scientific Name | Author | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boglossidium luteum | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Buglossidum luteum | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Monochirus luteus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Monochirus minutus | Parnell | 1837 | Synonym |
| Pleuronectes luteus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Rhombus luteus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Solea lutea | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 22 records indexed .
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