Witch (lefteye flounder)

Species of fish

This article is about the Pacific flatfish species. For the Atlantic species, see Megrim and Torbay sole.

Witch

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Pleuronectiformes
Family:  | Bothidae
Genus:  | Arnoglossus
Species:  |

A. scapha

Binomial name
Arnoglossus scapha

(J. R. Forster, 1801)

Synonyms

* Pleuronectes scapha Forster, 1801

The witch, Arnoglossus scapha, is a lefteye flounder of the family Bothidae, found around China and New Zealand, in waters less than 400 m in depth. Their length is from 20 to 40 cm.

## References[edit]

* Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Arnoglossus scapha" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8

Taxon identifiers

Arnoglossus scapha|

* Wikidata: Q140194
* BOLD: 87067
* CoL: GTF9
* EoL: 46569774
* FishBase: 47433
* GBIF: 2408534
* iNaturalist: 539057
* IRMNG: 10135553
* ITIS: 616242
* IUCN: 143819655
* NCBI: 1585494
* NZOR: b76975cf-4fd4-4c80-93a3-40c066d455e7
* OBIS: 274176
* Open Tree of Life: 3640351
* WoRMS: 274176