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 | |
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| Rhombosolea plebela | |
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| Colistium guntheri New Zealand Brill | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Rhombosoleidae Regan, 1910 |
| Type genus | |
| Rhombosolea Günther, 1862
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In some traditional classifications, this group was formerly recognised as a subfamily, Rhombosoleinae, of the Pleuronectidae.[3][4]
Genera edit
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Psammodiscus ocellatus" in FishBase. May 2014 version.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Pleuronectidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2 April 2006.
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