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Hawaii's Reef Fishes

Flatfishes

Boreham's Sole Aseraggodes borehami (Randall, 1996)

This flatfish family is easily characterized by having the eyes on
the right side, the edge of the preopercle covered by skin, the mouth curved, the dorsal fin over or anterior to the eyes, and the pelvic fins free from the anal fin; the pectoral tins are absent on some species; the lateral line is straight on the body.

Soles often bury in the sediment of the bottom. Some remain hidden in sand or mud by day, emerging to forage at night. The species of Pardachirus and at least some of Aseraggodes are known to produce a strong skin toxin when under stress. Two species are known from the Hawaiian Islands, both in the genus Aseraggodes.

Therese's Sole

Aseraggodes therese (Randall, 1996)

Brown, mottled with white, with three longitudinal rows of large, irregular dark brown splotches and a few scattered lesser dark blotches; dorsal rays 72-79; anal rays 54-61; lateral line scales 60-66; front of upper lip overlapping lower lip when mouth closed. A small species, the largest, 3 inches (7.7 cm).

Known only from the Hawaiian Islands; usually found by day buried in silty sand in caves. Formerly misidentified as A. kobensis (Steindachner), a Japanese species.

Boreham's Sole

Aseraggodes borehami (Randall, 1996)

Light brown, blotched with brown spots of variable size and numerous small irregular white blotches, the most white at upper end of gill opening; dorsal rays 71-75; anal rays 49-52; no pectoral fins; lateral line scales 68-72; front of upper lip not overlapping lower lip when mouth closed. Largest, 5.3 inches (13.4 cm). Hawaiian Islands.

Often found in sand on the floor of caves or beneath ledges. The illustrated individual is being cleaned by the banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus, one claw of which is missing.

All information and pictures in this section are from John E. Randall's Shore Fishes of Hawai'i by permission of the author.

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