Kobe flounder
📖 Overview
Lives on sand and shell bottoms and feeds on bottom-living animals. Sexually dimorphic characters develop at about 5 cm SL.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 79 - 86; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 59 - 67. Tip of isthmus below middle of lower eye. Scales on ocular side ctenoid, armed with a row of hairlike spines. Caudal fin with 3 simple rays on upper and lower margins respectively. Pectoral fin elongated into a filament, longer than head. Caudal fin without a dark band. In male, body on blind side stained with dark-blue except for head, interorbital width broader and pectoral fin longer than in female.: short and / or deep; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Kobe flounder is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Kobe flounder is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Kobe flounder is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; demersal; depth range 50 - 275 m . Temperate Northwest Pacific: Japan, Formosa Strait, northern part of the South China Sea.
🌿 Ecology
bottom-living animals
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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