Species Paraplagusia bilineata (Bloch, 1787)

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Species Paraplagusia bilineata (Bloch, 1787)

Lemon Tongue Sole, Doublelined Tonguesole, Lemon Sole, Lemon Tongue-sole, Patterned Tongue Sole, Patterned Tongue-sole, Pointed Tongue-sole, Spotted Tongue Sole, Spotted Tongue-sole

Pleuronectes bilineatus Bloch, M.E. 1787. Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin : J. Morino Vol. 3 146 pp. pls 181-216. [29, pl. 188].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMB 2432, Indian Ocean.
Paralectotype(s) ZMB lost (2), China and Indian Ocean.
Subsequent designation references:
Paepke, H.-J. 1999. Bloch's fish collection in the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: an illustrated catalog and historical account. Theses Zoologicae 32: 1-216 [68].
Plagusia marmorata Bleeker, P. 1851. Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Pleuronectoïden van der Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 1: 401-416 [411].
Type data:

Syntype(s) RMNH 8501 (11), Jakarta (as Batavia), Java, Indonesia; SMNS 10587 (2), Jakarta (as Batavia), Java, Indonesia; NMV 46253, Jakarta (as Batavia), Java, Indonesia.
Plagusia acumineata Castelnau, F.L. de 1875. Researches on the fishes of Australia. Intercolonial Exhibition Essays. 2. pp. 1–52 in, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 : Official Record. Melbourne. [44].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP A.5189, Fremantle, WA
Comment: types reported as probably lost in (Menon, A.G.K., 1980).
Type locality references:
Menon, A.G.K. 1980. A revision of the fringed-lip tongue soles of the genus Paraplagusia Bleeker, 1865 (Family Cynoglossidae). Matsya 5: 11-22 figs 1-2 [dated 1979].
Plagusia guttata Macleay, W.J. 1878. The fishes of Port Darwin. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 2(4): 344-367 pls 7-10 [362, pl.10 (fig.3)].
Type data:
Lectotype AM I.16283–001 (ex. MAMU F226), Port Darwin, NT.
Paralectotype(s) AM I.16283–001 (5. ex. MAMU F226); AM I.12167 (destroyed).
Subsequent designation references:
McCulloch, A.R. & Whitley, G.P. 1925. Some little known Australian flatfishes. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 342-354 figs 1-4 pl. 49 [352].
Plagusia unicolor Macleay, W.J. 1881. Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(1): 1-138 pls 1-2 [138].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM I.16284–001 (originally 2, now 1. ex. MAMU 1162), Port Jackson, NSW.
Plagusia notata De Vis, C.W. 1883. Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 8(2): 283-289 [288].
Type data:
Holotype QM I.107 (holotype listed as QM I.379 in Menon, A.G.K. 1980. A revision of the fringed-lip tongue soles of the genus Paraplagusia Bleeker, 1865 (Family Cynoglossidae). Matsya 5: 11–22 figs 1–2 [dated 1979]), Moreton Bay, QLD.
Plagusia brevirostris Saville-Kent, W. 1893. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its Products and Potentialities. London : W.H. Allen & Co., Limited. [xiii] + 388 pp. 21 figs 64 pls. [370] [nom. nud.].
Rhinoplagusia australis Rendahl, H. 1922. A contribution to the ichthyology of north-west Australia. Meddelelser fra det Zoologiske Museum. Kristiania 5: 163-197 figs 1-6 [190].
Type data:
Status unknown, UZMO J.5232, Roebuck Bay, WA
Comment: UZMO J.5232 is labelled as holotype but Pethon (1969) does not regard it as such. Pethon, P. 1969. List of type specimens of fishes, amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, University of Oslo. Rhizocrinus, Occasional Papers of the Zoological Museum, University of Oslo v. 1 (no. 1): 1-17.
Plagusia blochii Bleeker, P. 1851. Over eenige nieuwe soorten van Pleuronectoïden van der Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 1: 401-416 [411] [replacement name; previously considered an original description by Menon (1980), who designated a lectotype, but see Kottelat (2013), who considered the name as an unnecessary replacement name].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Menon, A.G.K. 1980. A revision of the fringed-lip tongue soles of the genus Paraplagusia Bleeker, 1865 (Family Cynoglossidae). Matsya 5: 11-22 figs 1-2 [dated 1979] [13]
Kottelat, M. 2013. Nomenclature and identity of the tongue soles Paraplagusia bilineata, "Cynoglossus bilineatus" and Paraplagusia blochii (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61(2): 763-766 [765]

Generic Combinations

Paraplagusia acumineata (Castelnau, 1875). —
Norman, J.R. 1926. A report on the flatfishes (Heterosomata) collected by the F.I.S. Endeavour, with a synopsis of the flatfishes of Australia and a revision of the subfamily Rhombosoleinae. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 5(5): 219-308 figs 1-15 [298]
Paraplagusia bilineata (Bloch, 1787). —
Munroe, T.A. 2001. Soleidae, Cynoglossidae. pp. 3878-3901 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218. [3901]
Paraplagusia guttata (Macleay, 1878). —
Norman, J.R. 1926. A report on the flatfishes (Heterosomata) collected by the F.I.S. Endeavour, with a synopsis of the flatfishes of Australia and a revision of the subfamily Rhombosoleinae. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 5(5): 219-308 figs 1-15 [299]
Rhinoplagusia guttata (Macleay, 1878). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [288]
Paraplagusia unicolor (Macleay, 1881). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1921. Checklist of the fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 2(2): 14-58 figs 4-24 [47]
Rhinoplagusia unicolor (Macleay, 1878). —
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [49]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Rhinoplagusia japonica (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) [misidentification]. —
McCulloch, A.R. & Whitley, G.P. 1925. Some little known Australian flatfishes. Records of the Australian Museum 14(4): 342-354 figs 1-4 pl. 49 [350]

Introduction

It is likely that several species may be included under this name (Kottelat 2013).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Geographe Bay, WA (33°39'S) to Batemans Bay, NSW (35°55'S), also Lord Howe Island; tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, soft bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

0-200m

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. [234]

Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls. [146]

Chapleau, F. & Renaud, C.B. 1993. Paraplagusia sinerama (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae), a new Indo-Pacific tongue sole with a revised key to species of the genus. Copeia 1993(3): 798-807 figs 1-4 [801]

Coleman, N. 1980. Australian Sea Fishes South of 30ºS. Lane Cove, NSW : Doubleday Australia Pty Ltd 309 pp. [269] (as P. unicolor)

Hoese, D.F. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Cynoglossidae. pp. 1853-1858 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [1856]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [47] (also as Paraplagusia acuminata with authorship incorrectly as Bloch)

Johnson, J.W. 1999. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 709-762 [753]

Larson, H.K. & Williams, R.S. 1997. Darwin Harbour fishes: a survey and annotated checklist. pp. 339-380 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [374]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [289] (as Cynoglossus bilineatus, in part, p. 288, as Rhinoplagusia guttata p. 287, as Paraplagusia unicolor, Paraplagusia acuminata and Paraplagusia brevirostris)

Menon, A.G.K. 1980. A revision of the fringed-lip tongue soles of the genus Paraplagusia Bleeker, 1865 (Family Cynoglossidae). Matsya 5: 11-22 figs 1-2 [dated 1979]

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [74] (514, as P. acuminata, 515, as P. unicolor and 516, as P. guttata)

Munroe, T.A. 2001. Soleidae, Cynoglossidae. pp. 3878-3901 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218. [3901]

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. [298]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [49] (1553, as Paraplagusia guttata, 1552, as Rhinoplagusia unicolor and 1551, as Paraplagusia acuminata)