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when the Sydney crew went to Sydney Aquarium, i took some notes on interesting species.

One that got Sin and I very interested was a 'tailed sole'. It looked like breathing sand, i dont think we got a good look at the actual fish, just its breathing movements!

After looking it up on Google, this is the info that i got.

Soleidae
Aseraggodes klunzingeri (Weber 1907)

Thats about it. Does anyone know anything more useful on this species? As far as i can tell, its native to Australia.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Well i had a library book that had a profile on a sole,but its at the library i can go get it to day and tell you though. It looked pretty cool and kinda looked like it had a million+ feet. Any way i'll try to get it at the library for ya 2day.

i seerched google and found this article on the eating habits of the sole.



This study intend to describe the feeding habits of sole fish (Achirus declives) in the Sergipe River estuary, Sergipe, Brazil. The feeding habits were studied by examining stomach contents of specimens collected during two cruises. Otter-trawl catches were carried out on the main channel of Sergipe River (between 5 and 12 metres depth) in the winter, 1980 and summer, 1981. Intraspecific comparisons of the diet at different size class, sex and season, were made using the frequency of occurrence, numerical percentage, percentage of weight and percentage of Index of Relative Importance. The main food items were Polychaeta, Crustacea and Teleostei (Gobiidae) in winter and Polychaeta and Crustacea in the summer, showing benthic feeding habits. A low percent of stomachs were found to be empty (30 %) and of the remaining 65 % contained polychaetes and/or Crustacea. Ontogenetic differences were noted in the diet. In the soles mid size classes, polychaetes can reach up to 100 % of stomach content. 6 families, 7 genus and 5 species were determined. 29 % of the polychaetes found were carnivores, mainly of the order Eunicida; 14 % omnivores (family Nereididae) and 57 % deposit-feeders, mainly Capitellidae, Opheliidae and Spionidae. Capitella capitata was present in 60 % of the stomachs. In the large size classes, crustaceans can reach up to 80 % of stomach content. The shrimps (Alpheidae and Penaeidae) was the commonest food item. No difference was observed among males and females.

Heres a site about them[href]http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.cfm?Country=Papua%20New%20Guinea&Genus=Aseraggodes&Species=klunzingeri[href]
no pic though. I guess its also known as the tailed sole.

[span class="edited"][Edited by fish1 2004-08-16 07:49][/span]