{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{for|the unrelated Pacific species|Pacific sand sole}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{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 |article-number=e.T198553A15594886 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198553A15594886.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> | image = Pegusa lascaris.jpg | taxon = Pegusa lascaris | authority = (Risso, 1810) | synonyms = * ''Pleuronectes lascaris'' <small>Risso, 1810</small> * ''Solea lascaris'' <small>(Risso, 1810)</small> * ''Solea scriba'' <small>Valenciennes, 1837</small> * ''Solea brasiliensis'' <small>Kaup, 1858</small> * ''Solea aurantiaca'' <small>Günther, 1862</small> * ''Solea auriantiaca'' <small>Günther, 1862</small> * ''Solea vermeuleni'' <small>Metzelaar, 1919</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = FB>{{Fishbase|Pegusa|lascaris|month=February|year=2018}}</ref> }} 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.<ref>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.</ref> Recorded in the Suez Canal.<ref>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.</ref> 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).<ref>Vasilyeva E.D. (2007) Fishes of the Black Sea, VNIRO, Moscow, 238 pp. (in Russian)</ref> The modern studies confirms the presence of the sand sole in this water basin.<ref>Movchan V.V. (2011) Fish of Ukraine, Zoloti Vorota, Kyiv, 444 pp. {{ISBN|978-966-2246-26-1}}.</ref>

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==External links== * {{FishBase|genus=Pegusa|species=lascaris|id=1336|month=November|year=2020}}

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