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Cynoglossidae
Duskycheek tonguefish
Symphurus plagusia
Cynoglossid Fish from Seventy Five Meters
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Deep-bodied
MediumDuskycheek tonguefish is a fish found around Western Atlantic. Records give a maximum length of 25 cm. Its body is deep body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Cynoglossidae
- Genus
- Symphurus
- Maximum length
- 25 cm
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hispaniola but unknown from the Bahamas. Continental margin of Central America (Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) to South America (Colombia, Guyana, suriname, Tobago and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
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