Marine Species Traits - Cynoglossus lingua Hamilton, 1822

Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Edinburgh & London. i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].]. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cynoglossus lingua Hamilton, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154722 on 2025-02-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-19 07:59:47Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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original description Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. Edinburgh & London. i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].]. [details]

original description (of Pleuronectes potous Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [The Animal Kingdom, arranged according to its organization, to serve as a basis for the natural history of animals and as an introduction to comparative anatomy]. Déterville, Paris. Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348
page(s): 344 [details]

original description (of Plagusia macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1851) Bleeker, P. (1851). Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Pleuronectoïden van den Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië. v. 1 (no. 4): 401-416. [Also as a separate, pp. 1-16. [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [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]

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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pleuronectes potous Cuvier, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Cynoglossus potous (Cuvier, 1829))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Plagusia potous (Cuvier, 1829))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Cynoglossus acinaces Jenkins, 1910)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Arelia lingua (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Plagusia macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1851)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Arelia potous (Cuvier, 1829))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Plagusia lingua (Hamilton, 1822))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cynoglossus lingua)
To FishBase (from synonym Cynoglossus potous (Cuvier, 1829))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Plagusia lingua (Hamilton, 1822))
To FishBase (from synonym Arelia macrorhynchos (Bleeker, 1851))
To FishBase (from synonym Arelia potous (Cuvier, 1829))
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronectes potous Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Arelia lingua (Hamilton, 1822))
To FishBase (from synonym Plagusia macrorhynchos Bleeker, 1851)
To FishBase (from synonym Plagusia potous (Cuvier, 1829))
To FishBase (from synonym Cynoglossus acinaces Jenkins, 1910)
To FishBase images (Cynoglossus lingua, India, by Devarapalli, P.)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To FishBase images (Cynoglossus lingua, India, by Devarapalli, P.)

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