Cleisthenes pinetorum
Species of fish
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
Family: | Pleuronectidae |
Genus: | Cleisthenes |
Species: |
C.
pinetorum
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Binomial name | |
Cleisthenes pinetorum
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Synonyms | |
Hippoglossoides pinetorum (Jordan & Starks, 1904) |
Cleisthenes pinetorum is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae . It is a demersal fish that lives on sublittoral sand and mud bottoms at depths of between 50 and 200 metres (160 and 660 ft) . Its native habitat is the temperate waters of the northwest Pacific , around Japan , Korea and Taiwan . [1]
Nomenclature
Both species in the genus Cleisthenes - Cleisthenes pinetorum and Cleisthenes herzensteini - are commonly known as Sôhachi in Japan . [1]
References
- 1 2 Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly (6 October 2010). "Cleisthenes pinetorum" . Fishbase . Retrieved 2011-08-02 .
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