Buglossidium luteum (Risso, 1810)
Solenette
Buglossidium luteum
photo by Guerrieri, S.

Family:  Soleidae (Soles)
Max. size:  20 cm TL (male/unsexed); max.weight: 53.3 g; max. reported age: 13 years
Environment:  demersal; marine; depth range 5 - 450 m
Distribution:  Eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Scotland southward, also North Sea, Kattegat and Baltic; Mediterranean Sea: including Adriatic, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus.
Diagnosis:  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.
Biology:  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).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 28 June 2021 Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless


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