Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 10 - 300 m (Ref. 26999). Tropical; 30°N - 9°S, 18°W - 13°E
Eastern Central Atlantic: Mauritania and the Canary Islands to Angola (9°20'S).
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm 34.0 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 60.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2683); common length : 45.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 26999)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Diagnosis: 10-13, exceptionally 14, transversal scales between the mid-lateral line and the margino-dorsal lateral line (Ref. 81682).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated; Cross section: flattened.
Found on sand and mud bottoms of coastal waters (Ref. 2683).
Menon, A.G.K., 1977. A systematic monograph of the tongue soles of the genus Cynoglossus Hamilton-Buchanan (Pisces: Cynoglossidae). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. (238):1-129. (Ref. 5297)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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