Rhombosoleidae

Rhombosoleidae is a family of flatfish in the order Pleuronectiformes, comprising nine genera and 19 species; all members of this family are right eye flounders with asymmetrical pelvic fins. Species are typically demersal, living on bottoms in temperate marine waters on the continental shelf, although some species of Rhombosolea enter fresh water in New Zealand. Most are restricted to waters around Australia and New Zealand, though the Remo flounder, Oncopterus darwinii, occurs in the southwestern Atlantic[1] and the Indonesian ocellated flounder, Psammodiscus ocellatus, occurs in Indonesia.[2]

Rhombosoleidae
Rhombosolea plebela
Colistium guntheri New Zealand Brill
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Rhombosoleidae
Regan, 1910
Type genus
Rhombosolea
Günther, 1862

In some traditional classifications, this group was formerly recognised as a subfamily, Rhombosoleinae, of the Pleuronectidae.[3][4]

Genera

References
  1. Evseenko, Sergei A. (February 2004). "Family Pleuronectidae Cuvier 1816 — righteye flounders" (PDF). Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 37: 37pp. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Psammodiscus ocellatus" in FishBase. May 2014 version.
  3. J. A. Cooper and F. Chapleau (1998). "Monophyly and intrarelationships of the family Pleuronectidae (Pleuronectiformes), with a revised classification". Fish. Bull. 96 (4): 686–726.
  4. "Pleuronectidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2 April 2006.
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