Belgian Register of Marine Species - Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758)

BeRMS taxon details

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 127136

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Pisces > Actinopterygii > Pleuronectiformes > Pleuronectidae > Pleuronectinae > Glyptocephalus

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Glyptocephalus

Sources

original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 269 [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 269 [details]

context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Danish	skærising	[details]
Dutch	hondstong	[details]
Dutch	witje	[details]
English	flet	[details]
English	pole dab	[details]
English	skærising	[details]
English	witch	[details]
English	witch flounder	[details]
French	plie cynoglosse	[details]
French	plie grise	[details]
Icelandic	langlúra	[details]
Norwegian	smørflyndre	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	smørflyndre	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	smørflyndre	[details]
Swedish	mareflundra	[details]
Swedish	rödtunga	[details]
Welsh	lleden wrach	[details]

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Distribution

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Scotland [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain) [details]

Host of

Acanthochondria cornuta (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Haemobaphes cyclopterina (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Sphyrion lumpi (Krøyer, 1845) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)

Links

To Barcode of Life (54 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (109 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (76 nucleotides; 44 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS

Images

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-21 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Gilson (1921, fig. 79)
added on 2008-06-12 - author: Anoniem in Gilson, G. (1921)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Poll (1947, fig. 252)
added on 2008-08-13 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Day)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Glyptocephalus cynoglossus - witch flounder (juvenile)
added on 2011-02-15 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Glyptocephalus cynoglossus - witch flounder (large)
added on 2011-02-23 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Greenland halibut and witch flounder (small)
added on 2011-02-23 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères (