Ambicolored specimens of the flounder Paralichthys orbignyanus (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae)

Carnikián, Agustín; Acuña, Alicia; Viana, F.

doi:10.1590/s1679-62252006000200015

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“…endocrine) involved in body color patterns, and genetic factors as possible hypotheses to explain color anomalies (3,6,7,(16)(17)(18)(19). Besides these possible factors, the environmental contamination of sediments that originate from anthropogenic and industrial activities could also contribute to the effects (20); this suggestion is plausible owing to the fact that the surmullet feeds from sediment. …”

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First report of abnormal pigmentation in a surmullet, Mullus surmuletus L. (Osteichthyes: Mullidae)

Tokaç¹,

Akyol²,

Aydın³

et al. 2013

Turk J Vet Anim Sci

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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First report of abnormal pigmentation in a surmullet, Mullus surmuletus L. (Osteichthyes: Mullidae)

Tokaç¹,

Akyol²,

Aydın³

et al. 2013

Turk J Vet Anim Sci

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“…Several families inhabit freshwaters and more than one colonization by a family is possible. Families with members that may be found in freshwater are the Achiridae (Lovejoy et al, ; Munroe, ), the Soleidae (Chapleau & Desoutter, ; Evseenko & Bolshakov, ; Munroe, ), the Cynoglossidae (Munroe, ), the Scophthalmidae (Bailly & Chanet, ; Chanet & Branellec, ), the Pleuronectidae (Munroe, ), the Paralichthyidae (Díaz de Astarloa, ; Carnikián, Acuña, & Viana, ; Cortez, Balbontín, & Landaeta, ) and the Rhombosoleidae (McDowall, ; Munroe, ). In this study, we had representatives of three families that provide the greatest number of species that inhabit estuary and freshwater environments (Munroe, ): Achiridae, Soleidae and Cynoglossidae (Appendix ).…”

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Origins and relationships of the Pleuronectoidei: Molecular and morphological analysis of living and fossil taxa

et al. 2019

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Flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes) are a species‐rich and distinct group of fishes characterized by cranial asymmetry. Flatfishes occupy a wide diversity of habitats, including the tropical deep‐sea and freshwaters, and often are small‐bodied fishes. Most scientific effort, however, has been focused on large‐bodied temperate marine species important in fisheries. Phylogenetic study of flatfishes has also long been limited in scope and focused on the placement and monophyly of flatfishes. As a result, several questions in systematic biology have persisted that molecular phylogenetic study can answer. We examine the Pleuronectoidei, the largest suborder of Pleuronectiformes with >99% of species diversity of the order, in detail with a multilocus nuclear and mitochondrial data set of 57 pleuronectoids from 13 families covering a wide range of habitats. We combine the molecular data with a morphological matrix to construct a total evidence phylogeny that places fossil flatfishes among extant lineages. Utilizing a time‐calibrated phylogeny, we examine the timing of diversification, area of origin and ancestral temperature preference of Pleuronectoidei. We find polyphyly or paraphyly of two flatfish families, the Paralichthyidae and the Rhombosoleidae, and support the creation of two additional families—Cyclopsettidae and Oncopteridae—to resolve their non‐monophyletic status. Our findings also support the distinctiveness of Paralichthodidae and refine the placement of that lineage. Despite a core fossil record in Europe, the observed recent diversity of pleuronectoids in the Indo‐West Pacific is most likely a result of the Indo‐West Pacific being the area of origin for pleuronectoids and the ancestral temperature preference of flatfishes is most likely tropical.

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“…Such malpigmentation includes albinism and hypermelanosis on the ocular and blind sides, respectively. The malpigmentations have been found most commonly in artificial culture facility (Venizelos and Benetti, 1999;Bolker and Hill, 2000), while the features are rarely found in the wild (Díaz de Astarloa, 1995, 1998Ivankov and Ivankova, 2002;Chaves et al, 2002;Carnikián et al, 2006;Macieira et al, 2006;Silva et al, 2007). The pseudo-albinism on the ocular side is a common feature among farmed pleuronectiformes (Nakamura et al, 1986;Purchase et al, 2002).…”

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Morphological Specificity in Cultured Starry Flounder Platichthys stellatus Reared in Artificial Facility

Dh¹,

Lee²,

Kim³

et al. 2012

Fisheries and aquatic sciences

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The starry flounder Platichthys stellatus, like all flatfish, exhibits conspicuous lateral asymmetry in numerous traits, most obvious of which is the migration of one eye to the other side of the head during metamorphosis. Additional changes related to eye migration include asymmetrical pigmentation, and a behavioral shift from larvae that exhibit upright, open-water swimming to juveniles and adults that lie on the ocean floor, eye side up. However, the morphology of these juveniles has been quite plastic in recent years, a phenomenon which is thought to be related to a diverse suite of semi-intensive and intensive larviculture methods. The cause of morphological abnormalities in the farmed flatfish is poorly understood. In the present study, we observe the features of morphological specificity and abnormality of immature fish (mean total length 23 cm) and survey the occurrence frequency of the specificity and abnormality of juvenile (mean total length 6.70 cm) in artificial culture facility. We find 2 types of abnormality (e.g., albino in ocular side and hypermelanosis in blind side) and 1 type of specificity (e.g., lateral polymorphism). These considerably differ from normal individuals (has sinistral eye and pigmented on only one side) by several characteristics (dextral eye, ocular side albinism, blind side hypermelanosis). The incidences of albinism, hypermelanosis, and body reversal are 10.1 ± 2.56%, 91.7 ± 1.7%, and 13.1 ± 1.1%, respectively. These suggest that these morphometric and morphological differences occur more in artificial environment during and just after metamorphosis.

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Ambicolored specimens of the flounder Paralichthys orbignyanus (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae)

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

First report of abnormal pigmentation in a surmullet, Mullus surmuletus L. (Osteichthyes: Mullidae)

First report of abnormal pigmentation in a surmullet, Mullus surmuletus L. (Osteichthyes: Mullidae)

Origins and relationships of the Pleuronectoidei: Molecular and morphological analysis of living and fossil taxa

Morphological Specificity in Cultured Starry Flounder Platichthys stellatus Reared in Artificial Facility

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