Lepidorhombus boscii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Scophthalmidae
- Genus
- Lepidorhombus
- Species
- Lepidorhombus boscii
- Scientific Name
- Lepidorhombus boscii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lepidorhombus boscii
The four-spot megrim (Lepidorhombus boscii) is a species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is found a depths between 7 and 800 m (23 and 2,625 ft) in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean. It can be separated from its close relative, the megrim or whiff (L. whiffiagonis), by the dark spots towards the rear of the fins. It reaches a length of 40 cm (16 in).
In Spanish it is known as gallo de cuatro manchas, (or more often, simply gallo) sometimes (depending on the region or city) ojito. In Galician it is "rapante" or "meiga de catro manchas" and in Catalan it is palaia bruixa de quatre taques, serrandell or llisèria. In France it is known as cardine à quatre taches.
...Lepidorhombus boscii in languages:
- Chinese
- 鮑氏鱗鮃
- Czech
- kambala čtyřskvrnná
- Dutch
- Viervlekkkige scharretong
- Dutch
- Gevlekte scharretong
- English
- Four-spotted Megrim
- French
- Cardine à quatre taches
- German
- Gefleckter Flügelbutt
- Modern Greek
- Γλώσσα
- Portuguese
- Areeiro-de-quatro-manchas
- Russian
- Пятнистый мегрим
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