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Solea elongata

species of fish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ821779 ↗
Source-derived summary

Solea elongata, the elongated sole, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Soleidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean, off the coast of various Middle Eastern countries, as well as Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Somalia.

Editorial summary

“Solea elongata” enters the record as species of fish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Solea, elongata and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 39-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Solea, elongata and species.
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Why this record matters

“Solea elongata” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Solea, elongata and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q821779. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Solea elongata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.