WoRMS taxon details
Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)
158907 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158907)
accepted
Species
Lophopsetta aquosa (Mitchill, 1815) · unaccepted
Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 389, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [details]
page(s): 389, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158907 on 2025-04-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 389, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
page(s): 389, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on mysids, shrimps, tomcod, smelt, hake, pollock, striped sea bass and herring [details]Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida [details]
Habitat Found to depths of 45 m on sand bottoms. [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Importance Social- Commercial [details]
Predators Atlantic cod, American angler, summer flounder, cobia, black sea bass, piked dogfish [details]
Reproduction Spawns in late spring and summer in the Gulf of Maine [details]
To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scophthalmus aquosus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lophopsetta aquosa (Mitchill, 1815))
To FishBase images (Scophthalmus aquosus, USA, by Kils, U.)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 54 proteins)
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 54 proteins) (from synonym Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scophthalmus aquosus RAD103660-001)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scophthalmus aquosus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lophopsetta aquosa (Mitchill, 1815))
To FishBase images (Scophthalmus aquosus, USA, by Kils, U.)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 54 proteins)
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 54 proteins) (from synonym Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scophthalmus aquosus RAD103660-001)
To ITIS
