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| Citharidae Temporal range: | |
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| Citharoides macrolepis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
| Family: | Citharidae de Buen, 1935 |
| Type genus | |
| Citharus Artedi, 1793 | |
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The Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. 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).[1]
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
The extinct genus †Rhombocitharus Schwarzhans, 1994 is known from fossil otoliths from the early-mid Eocene of Denmark, the Oligocene of Germany, and the Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Citharidae de Buen, 1935". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
- ↑ Schwarzhans, Werner (2007-11-29). "Otoliths from casts from the Eocene Lillebaelt Clay Formation of Trelde Naes near Fredericia (Denmark), with remarks on the diet of stomatopods". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 246 (1): 69–81. Bibcode:2007NJGPA.246...69S. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0246-0069. ISSN 0077-7749.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
- Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
External links
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Citharidae". FishBase. October 2012 version.
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