Citharichthys cornutus, the horned whiff, is a species of flatfish in the large-tooth flounder family Paralichthyidae. This bathydemersal marine fish inhabits the continental shelves of the western Atlantic Ocean, in both tropical and subtropical waters. It ranges from New Jersey in the north to Uruguay in the south, though larvae samples have also been collected off the coast of Canada.[2] It occurs at depths between 30 and 400 metres (98 and 1,312 ft), though it is usually found in deeper waters.
Due to its diminutive size and the abundance of larger flatfishes, it is of no commercial importance, and is rarely collected. As a result, the fishes' morphology and ecology is known only from a limited number of collected samples.[2]
Referencesedit
^Carpenter, K.E.; Munroe, T.; Robertson, R. (2015). "Citharichthys cornutus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T16438022A16510342. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T16438022A16510342.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ abcThomas A. Munroe, Steve W. Ross (2010). "Distribution and life history of two diminutive flatfishes, Citharichthys gymnorhinus and C. cornutus (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae), in the western North Atlantic" (PDF). Fishery Bulletin. 108 (3): 323–345.
^Elmer J. Gutherz and Robbin R. Blackman (1970). "Two New Species of the Flatfish Genus Citharichthys (Bothidae) from the Western North Atlantic". Copeia (2): 340–348.
External linksedit
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Citharichthys cornutus" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
January 01, 1970
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