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Liopsetta putnami (Gill, 1864)

American smooth flounder
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes) > Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders) > Pleuronectinae
Etymology: Liopsetta: Greek, leio = smooth + Greek,psetta = grouper (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Professor Frederic Ward Putnam (1839–1915) was an anthropologist and naturalist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Gill.

Issue
This species is placed in the genus Liopsetta in Evseenko (2004: Ref. 51668).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 1 - 27 m (Ref. 58426), usually ? - 10 m (Ref. 117245). Temperate; 60°N - 41°N, 71°W - 50°W

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Northwest Atlantic: Ungava Bay in Quebec, Canada to Rhode Island in USA.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 9.8, range 9 - 10.7 cm
Max length : 27.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 117245); 33.0 cm TL (female); common length : 20.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 117245)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits inshore waters, shallow estuaries, river mouths and sheltered bays (Ref. 8520). Benthic species. Feeds on worms, crustaceans and molluscs (Ref. 58426).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Amaoka, Kunio | Collaborators

Vinnikov, K.A., R.C. Thomson and T.A. Munroe, 2018. Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 125:147-162. (Ref. 122998)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 12 February 2021

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 2.5 - 8.8, mean 6 °C (based on 248 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.6250   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00912 (0.00453 - 0.01836), b=3.10 (2.93 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.4   ±0.44 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Assuming tm=2-4; Fec=4,581-51,854).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (23 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 63.9 [19.7, 143.2] mg/100g; Iron = 0.27 [0.11, 0.75] mg/100g; Protein = 17.5 [15.4, 20.0] %; Omega3 = 0.276 [0.127, 0.615] g/100g; Selenium = 14 [5, 43] μg/100g; VitaminA = 11.9 [3.1, 45.3] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.575 [0.307, 1.195] mg/100g (wet weight);