Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 77 - 82; Anal soft rays: 54 - 58. Body deep (46-50% SL). Snout extended into a hook-like process projecting downwards in front of small, oblique mouth. Scales very small, rather firmly attached; mostly ctenoid on ocular side, mostly cycloid on blind side. Pelvic fin rays on right side 9-10, left 6. Caudal fin rays 14 (Ref. 33839).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Pleuronectiformes

Family: Rhombosoleidae

Genus: Ammotretis

Species: Ammotretis lituratus (Richardson, 1844)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found inshore off beaches and on the continental shelf (Ref. 9563).

Habitat

demersal