Fish of the Arnoglossus (scaldfish) genus of the Bothidae (lefteye flounders) family of the Pleuronectoidei suborder of the Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes) order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Thor’s scaldfish. Photo by © Mariano García Rodriguez. fishbase.org)
Thor‘s scaldfish (Arnoglossus thori) was first described in 1913 by the Scottish ichthyologist and fisheries scientist Harry Macdonald Kyle (1872–1951).
It lives at a depth of 15-300 meters. The maximum recorded length is 18 cm; specimens that are up to 12 cm long are more common. It feeds on small fish and invertebrates and is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of Thor‘s scaldfish (Arnoglossus thori) in other languages are as follows:
Gjuhëza e Torit (Albanian), Ζαγκέτα θωρ (Zangeta thor) (Greek), Peludilla (Spanish), Suacia mora (Italian), Thor-Butt (German), Arnoglosa trepa (Polish), Carta-pontuada (Portuguese), Арноглосса–пелудилья (Arnoglossa–peludilja) (Russian), Plosnatica barjaktarka (Serbian, Croatian), Arnoglosse de Thor (French).