Know your seafood variety
Solefish or Tongue fish
Species: Cynoglossus spp
Sole fish 1
Sole fish 2
Sole fish 3
It has lean, white flesh with a delicate flavour and firm flaky
texture. Grow up to 40cm.
Live in mud banks or a mixture of mud and sand. Active at night.
Oval or somewhat elongate and strongly compressed flat fishes with
eyes on right side of body
Preopercle without a free margin, embedded in skin
No spines in fins, dorsal fin extending far forward on head; dorsal
and anal fin completely separate from , adherent to, or fused with caudal fin
lateral lines singel and straight on body; but sometimes branched on head
Colour usually brown, sometimes with scattered black spots or blotches or dark crossbands
dark bands on the eyed side of body and vertical fins; blind side yellow/white
Gujarathi - Jib
Marathi - Gipti / Lep/ Shivra
Kannada - Nangu / Lyamp
Malayalam - Vaalan manthal / Vaalan nangu
Tamil - Naaku meen
It is low fat fish. tender meat, moderate flavour.
