- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- PLEURONECTIFORMES
- BOTHIDAE
- Parabothus
- taiwanensis
Parabothus taiwanensis Amaoka & Shen 1993
Other Names: Taiwanese Flounder
Taiwanese Flounder, Parabothus taiwanensis. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A light brown left-eyed flounder with a dusky abdominal region, and slightly darker fin rays.
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Parabothus taiwanensis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 10 Jul 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/956
Parabothus taiwanensis Amaoka & Shen 1993
More Info
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Distribution |
Northwest Shelf, Western Australia. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the West Pacific: Japan, East China Sea, Taiwan and Vanuatu. Inhabits soft sediment areas at depths to about 250 m. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin 94-109; Anal fin 76-85; Pectoral fin 10-11; Pelvic fin 6/6; Caudal fin 2+13+2 (middle rays branched); Gill rakers 0 + 7-8; Lateral-line scales 57-64; Vertebrae 10 + 29-30 = 39-40. Body elliptical, greatest depth 2.3 in SL; dorsal and ventral profiles of body convex and nearly asymmetric. Head moderate, anterior profile steep, with deep concavity in front of interorbital space. Snout short, distinctly shorter than eye diameter. Rostral spine blunt. Eyes small, lower eye slightly in advance of upper. Anterior nostril forming tube and with small flap; posterior nostril without flap, situated immediately in front of lower eye. Mouth large, oblique. Scales deciduous, present on ocular side, absent on snout and both ocular-side jaws; scales on blind side deciduous. Dorsal-fin origin before midline of interorbital space, anterior most rays not elongate. Anal-fin origin below base of ocular-side pectoral fin, subsymmetrical to dorsal-fin margin. Pectoral fins on both ocular and blind sides short. Ocular-side pelvic fin origin at tip of isthmus, blind-side pelvic fin originates at fourth ray of ocular side fin. Caudal fin slightly pointed. All fin-rays simple except for middle 13 caudal-fin rays. |
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Etymology |
The species is named for the type locality: off southwestern Taiwan. |
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Species Citation |
Parabothus taiwanensis Amaoka & Shen 199, Bulletin of Marine Science 53(3): 1041, fig. 1. Type locality: off Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Resources |
Parabothus taiwanensis Amaoka & Shen 1993
References
Amaoka, K. & Ho, H.-C. 2019. The lefteye flounder family Bothidae (order Pleuronectiformes) of Taiwan, in Ho, H.-C., Koeda, K. & Hilton, E.J. (eds) Study on the fish taxonomy and diversity of Taiwan. Zootaxa 4702(1): 155-215, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4702.1.18
Amaoka, K., Matsuura, K. & Carpenter, K.E. 2020. Parabothus taiwanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T143828274A143844672. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T143828274A143844672.en. Downloaded on 24 March 2021.
Amaoka, K., Mihara, E. & Rivaton, J. 1997. Pisces, Pleuronectiformes: flatfishes from the waters around New Caledonia. Six species of the bothid genera Tosarhombus and Parabothus. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 174: 143-171
Amaoka, K. & Shen, S.-C. 1993. A new bothid flatfish Parabothus taiwanensis collected from Taiwan (Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 53(3): 1042-1047 See ref online
Su, Y., Ho, H. & Chu, T. 2024. First case of a reversed Parabothus taiwanensis Amaoka & Shen, 1993 from Taiwan (Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae), with first evidence of situs inversus viscerum in bothid. PeerJ 12: e16829 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16829
Voronina, E.P. & Causse, R. 2014. New record of the bothid flounder Parabothus taiwanensis (Bothidae, Pleuronectiformes) from the southern Pacific Ocean (Vanuatu Archipelago) with description of a new diagnostic character. Cybium 38(2): 149-152, https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2014-382-006
