Author: Chabanaud, 1931

Cynoglossus sinusarabici Chabanaud, 1931

Diagnosis: body elongate. Snout rounded, with a moderate rostral hook reaching almost to vertical through front margin of eye, eyes on left side, fairly large, with a narrow space between them. Maxilla reaching back to hind part of lower eye. Dorsal finrays 99-101; anal finrays 78-79; caudal finrays 8. Eyed side with 1 (midlateral) lateral line, with 54-60 scales; 11 scales between lateral line and base of dorsal fin; no lateral line on blind side; scales ctenoid on both sides of body. Colour: eyed side uniform brown, blind side whitish. Size: to about 15 cm SL.

Habitat: benthic on continental shelf, at depths less than 15 m.

Distribution: eastern Mediterranean (coast of Israel and Egypt), as an immigrant. Elsewhere, Suez Canal, Red Sea.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Pleuronectiformes
Suborder Pleuronectoidei
Family Cynoglossidae
Genus Cynoglossus
Species Cynoglossus sinusarabici

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Cynoglossus sinusarabici (Chabanaud, 1931)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Cynoglossus sinusarabici Chabanaud, 1931

Synonyms:

Dollfusichthys sinus-arabici Chabanaud, 1931a, Bull. Soc. zool. France, 56: 304. Syntypes: MNHN no. 1967-601 (2 sp., St 28, Gulf of Suez), 1967-603 (2 sp., St 25, Gulf of Suez).
Cynoglossus (Dollfusichthys) sinus-arabici: Chabanaud, 1939, (763): 30 (Red Sea).
Cynoglossus sinusarabici: Chabanaud, 1954: 465; 1955: 106.
Dollfusichthys sinus-arabici: Fowler, 1956: 188, fig. 104.
Dollfusichthys sinusarabici: Ben-Tuvia, 1966: 256, 267; 1971b: 34.

Common names:

red sea tonguesole [En]
sole-langue de la merrouge [Fr]

Ben-Tuvia, A. 1971b. Revised list of the Mediterranean Fishes of Israel. Israel J. Zool., 20: pp. 1-39.

Chabanaud, P. 1931a. Sur divers poissons soléiformes de la région indo-pacifique. II. Description de trois nouvelles espèces de la mer Rouge. Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 56: 296-305.

Chabanaud, P. 1939. Catalogue systématique et chorologique des Téléostéens dissymétriques du globe. Bull Inst. océanogr., Monaco, (763) :1-31.

Chabanaud, P. 1954. Notules Ichthyologiques. XLVII. Présence inédite d'un Cynoglossus dans la Méditerranée orientale. Bull Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 26: 465-466.

Chabanaud, P. 1955. Sur la répartition circumafricaine de diverses espèces de la famille des Soleidae. C.r. somm. Séanc. Soc. Biogeogr., 281: 99-106, 2 fig.

Fowler, H. W. 1956. Fishes of the Red Sea and Southern Arabia. 1. Branchiostomida to Polynemida. Weizmann Sci. Press., Jerusalem: pp. 1-240, 117 fig.

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