Arnoglossus laterna
| Mediterranean scaldfish | |
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| A fully grown scaldfish from the southern North Sea | |
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| A scaldfish larva, measuring approximately 9 millimetres (0.35 in) in length | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Osteichthyes |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Bothidae |
| Genus: | Arnoglossus |
| Species: | A. laterna |
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Arnoglossus laterna (Walbaum, 1792 ) |
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The Mediterranean scaldfish (Arnoglossus laterna) is a species of bottom feeder benthic fish belonging to the family Bothidae.
Like other species of the order Pleuronectiformes, scaldfish is a flatfish with a body length of 12 to 20 cm. It has pale yellow, large, ruffled scales.
It is found in the coasts of East Atlantic Ocean (from Norway to Angola), the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.
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