Naked tongue
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The bare tongue ( Gymnachirus melas ) is a flatfish .
description
With a plump body and unscaled skin, the bare tongue is an exceptional representative of its family, the American sole . Most of these fish have both eyes on the right side, which is covered with dark stripes. Although they spend most of their lives lying on their blind left flank on the sandy bottom of the sea, they can swim well. They are up to 25 cm long.
Occurrence
The fish is distributed in the western Atlantic from the coasts of Massachusetts and south to Florida, Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico. Its most common habitat is coastal waters at a depth of 30 to 45 meters. But it occurs to a depth of 183 m.
literature
- Philip Whitfield (ed.): The great world empire of the animals. 2000 mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians at a glance. Special edition. Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart et al. 1988, ISBN 3-87070-313-X , pp. 578-579.
Web links
- Lexicon of Biology: Tongues → online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gymnachirus melas on Fishbase.org (English)