Sand sole

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{for|the unrelated Pacific species|Pacific sand sole}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tous, P. |author2=Sidibe, A. |author3=Mbye, E. |author4=de Morais, L. |author5=Camara, Y.H. |author6=Adeofe, T.A. |author7=Monroe, T. |author8=Camara, K. |author9=Cissoko, K. |author10=Djiman, R. |author11=Sagna, A. |author12=Sylla, M. |date=2015 |title=Pegusa lascaris |volume=2015 |page=e.T198553A15594886 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198553A15594886.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| image = Pegusa lascaris.jpg

| taxon = Pegusa lascaris

| authority = (Risso, 1810)

| synonyms =

• Pleuronectes lascaris Risso, 1810
• Solea lascaris (Risso, 1810)
• Solea scriba Valenciennes, 1837
• Solea brasiliensis Kaup, 1858
• Solea aurantiaca Günther, 1862
• Solea auriantiaca Günther, 1862
• Solea vermeuleni Metzelaar, 1919

| synonyms_ref = {{Fishbase|Pegusa|lascaris|month=February|year=2018}}

}}

The sand sole (Pegusa lascaris) is a fish species in the family Soleidae. It is a marine, subtropical, demersal fish up to {{convert|40|cm|in}} long.

Widespread in the northeastern and southeastern Atlantic, to the Gulf of Guinea in the south, also in the Mediterranean Sea.Quéro, J.-C., M. Desoutter and F. Lagardère, 1986. Soleidae. p. 1308–1324. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 3. Recorded in the Suez Canal.Ben-Tuvia, A., 1990. A taxonomic reappraisal of the Atlanto-Mediterranean soles Solea solea, S. senegalensis and S. lascaris. J. Fish Biol. 36(6): 947–960. During a long time the soles from the Black Sea and Sea of Azov were erroneously identified as the Blackhand sole, which was considered as subspecies P. l. nasuta (now as a different species).Vasilyeva E.D. (2007) Fishes of the Black Sea, VNIRO, Moscow, 238 pp. (in Russian) The modern studies confirms the presence of the sand sole in this water basin.Movchan V.V. (2011) Fish of Ukraine, Zoloti Vorota, Kyiv, 444 pp. {{ISBN|978-966-2246-26-1}}.