Paralichthys orbignyanus (Valenciennes 1839)

Paralichthys orbignyanus is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family sand flounders. Individuals can grow to 62.4 cm.

EOL has data for 10 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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38 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Southwest Atlantic: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to at least Mar de la Plata, Argentina
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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benthic
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/benthic
- Definition: Living at the bottom of a body of water.
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Brasilochondria riograndensis Thatcher & Pereira Júnior 2004
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Profilicollis chasmagnathi (Holcman-Spector, Mane-Garzon & Dei-Cas 1978)
Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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62.4 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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1 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Paralichthys orbignyanus (Valenciennes 1839). View this species on GBIF