Wingbutt
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A winged flounder caught in the Tyrrhenian Sea |
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| Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis | ||||||||||||
| ( Walbaum , 1792) |
The megrim ( Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis ), also called Megrim is a fluke , from the family of turbot (Scophthalmidae). It occurs in the northeast Atlantic from Iceland to Cape Bojador on the coast of the Western Sahara , as well as in the western Mediterranean , in the North Sea and in the Skagerrak .
features
The winged butt can reach a maximum length of 60 centimeters, but usually stays at a length of 25 centimeters. Its body is thin and semi-transparent. As with all turbot, his eyes are on the left side of his body. The beginning of the dorsal fin is closer to the tip of the mouth than to the front edge of the upper eye. It is supported by 85 to 94 fin rays , the anal fin by 64 to 74 fin rays. The mouth is big. The scales are rough on the eye side and smooth on the blind side. The sideline runs in a clear arc above the pectoral fin. The pelvic fins have not grown together with the anal fin.
Way of life
The winged butt lives at depths of 100 to 400, in the Ionian Sea up to 700 meters, on soft soils. It feeds on small, bottom-dwelling fish, cephalopods and crustaceans. The Atlantic population spawns in deep water south of Iceland and west of the British Isles from March to June. The eggs are one millimeter in diameter. The larvae hatch after a week. At first they live pelagic and change to soil life at a length of 20 mm.
use
The winged butt is of little economic importance and only accidental bycatch in trawling.
literature
- Bent J. Muus, Jørgen G. Nielsen: The marine fish of Europe in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Atlantic. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07804-3 .
Web links
- Flügelbutt on Fishbase.org (English)