Buglossidium luteum (Risso, 1810)
Solenette
Sogliola gialla,  Lengua,  Linguatedda,  Linguatedda nica,  Palaiozza,  Palaiozza di fango,  Palaite,  Peloso,  Sfogieto peloso,  Sfogio menĂșo,  Sfoglia gialla,  Sfoglietta,  Sojja de fiure,  Solgliola gialla,  Zanchetta,  Zanchettella
Buglossidium luteum
photo by Guerrieri, S.

Family:  Soleidae (Soles)
Max. size:  20 cm TL (male/unsexed); max.weight: 53.3 g; max. reported age: 13 years
Environment:  demersal; marine; depth range 5 - 450 m
Distribution:  Eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Scotland southward, also North Sea, Kattegat and Baltic; Mediterranean Sea: including Adriatic, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus.
Diagnosis:  Dorsal spines (total): 0-0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 65-78; Anal soft rays: 49-63. Anterior nostril on blind side not enlarged, anterior nostril on eyed side with a backward-pointing tube, reaching to vertical through front margin of lower eye. Pectoral fins on blind side reduced to a single long and 1-2 short fin rays. The supra-temporal branch of lateral lie without tubular scales. Vertebrae 36-38. Scales rectangular, intercanalicular striae strongly curved.
Biology:  Demersal on sandy bottoms of continental shelf and slope. Feeds on a wide range of bottom-living organisms, mainly crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, cumaceans), bivalve mollusks, and polychaetes (Ref. 3397).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 28 June 2021 Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless
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