Thickray Sole, Aesopia cornuta Kaup 1858
A Thickray Sole, Aesopia cornuta, at Bali, Indonesia. Source: Andrey Ryanskiy / FishBase. License: CC BY Attribution-NonCommercial
A greyish to yellowish-brown sole, with darker 12-16 bars edged with black on the head, body and fins, and a black caudal fin with bright yellow blotches. The first dorsal-fin ray is elongate and thickened with many hair-like projections on the upper surface.
The Thickray Sole often lies buried in sand with only the eyes exposed.
Thickray Sole, Aesopia cornuta Kaup 1858
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Distribution |
Recorded in Australia from Shark Bay to off the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, WA, and east of Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and off Hinchinbrook Is, QLD to SE of Grafton, NSW; also in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere, widespread in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific. |
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Species Citation |
Aesopia cornuta Kaup, 1858, Archiv für Naturg. 24(1): 98. Type locality: British India. |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
Thickray Sole, Aesopia cornuta Kaup 1858
References
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Evseenko, S.A. 1998. The family Achiropsettidae and its position in taxonomical and ecological classifications of the order Pleuronectiformes. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Science Family Achiropsettidae: 1-62
Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.
Heemstra, P.C. & Gon, O. 1986. Family No. 262: Soleidae. pp. 868-874 in Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls.
Hoese, D.F. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Soleidae. pp. 1841-1852 in Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp.
Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50
Kaup, J.J. 1858. Uebersicht der Soleinae, der vierten Subfamilie der Pleuronectidae. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 24(1): 94-104
Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1985. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls.
