Citharidae
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| Citharoides macrolepis | |
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| Family: | Citharidae Günther, 1864
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The Citharidae are a small family of flounders. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between 14 and 36 centimetres (5.5 and 14.2 in).
Taxa include:
- Subfamily Brachypleurinae
- Genus Brachypleura
- Brachypleura novaezeelandiae – yellow-dabbled flounder
- Genus Lepidoblepharon
- Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis – scale-eyed flounder
- Genus Brachypleura
- Subfamily Citharinae
- Genus Citharoides
- Citharoides axillaris
- Citharoides macrolepidotus – branched ray flounder
- Citharoides macrolepis – twospot largescale flounder
- Citharoides orbitalis
- Genus Citharus
- Citharus linguatula – spotted flounder
- Genus Citharoides
References
- Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
External links
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). "Citharidae" in FishBase. October 2012 version.