Microstomus kitt, Lemon sole : fisheries, gamefish, aquarium

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Microstomus kitt (Walbaum, 1792)

Lemon sole
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Denmark country information

Common names: Almindelig rødtunge, Rødtunge
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: fairly common (chances are about 50%) | Ref: Winkler, H.M., K. Skora, R. Repecka, M. Ploks, A. Neelov, L. Urho, A. Gushin and H. Jespersen, 2000
Importance: minor commercial | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: restricted | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Occurs in all the waters around Denmark except the Baltic Sea. Minimum size limit in TL: 26 cm in the North Sea and 28 cm elsewhere. For commercial fishing: 25 cm in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat (Ref. 10963). Also Ref. 9900, 173.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/da.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Muus, B.J. and P. Dahlstrøm, 1989
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Limande sole, Mendo limón, Lemon dab, ... more

Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes) > Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders) > Microstominae
Etymology: Microstomus: Greek, mikros = small + Greek, stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Walbaum.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino demersale; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica 10 - 200 m, usually 10 - 150 m (Ref. 35388). Temperate; 72°N - 43°N, 26°W - 45°E (Ref. 54592)

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Northeast Atlantic: Bay of Biscay to the White Sea and off Iceland.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm 29.3, range 20 - 30 cm
Max length : 65.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 9988); peso massimo pubblicato: 3.0 kg (Ref. 6112); Età massima riportata: 23 anni (Ref. 6112)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Small head and mouth. Body is oval. Skin is marbled and smooth. Lateral line almost straight, slight curve above the pectoral fin (Ref. 35388).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Lives most often on stony bottoms. Feeds on a variety of small invertebrates, but polychaetes seem to dominate. Apparently they do not feed in wintertime (Ref. 9900). Marketed fresh and frozen; eaten steamed, fried, broiled, microwaved and baked (Ref. 9988).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Spawning is mainly confined to depths of 55-91 m in the northwestern North Sea and commences at a minimum temperature of 6.5 °C in Scottish waters. Sex ratio is about 1:1, but females progressively predominate upon sexual maturity.

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : Amaoka, Kunio | Collaboratori

Vinnikov, K.A., R.C. Thomson and T.A. Munroe, 2018. Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 125:147-162. (Ref. 122998)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 02 March 2021

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si; Acquario: Acquari pubblici
FAO - pesca: landings, species profile; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 7.1 - 12.5, mean 9.9 °C (based on 1310 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00741 (0.00591 - 0.00930), b=3.09 (3.02 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 69278):  3.2   ±0.33 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179):  Basso, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 4.5 - 14 anni (K=0.08-0.42; tm=3-6; tmax=23; Fec=19,680).
Prior r = 0.71, 95% CL = 0.47 - 1.07, Based on 1 full stock assessment.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (51 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Low to moderate vulnerability (29 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 20.4 [11.3, 39.5] mg/100g; Iron = 0.237 [0.134, 0.434] mg/100g; Protein = 17 [15, 19] %; Omega3 = 0.301 [0.150, 0.610] g/100g; Selenium = 18.1 [9.7, 37.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 7.6 [1.8, 30.7] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.377 [0.264, 0.576] mg/100g (wet weight);