Biology:Bothidae
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Bothidae or lefteye flounders are a family of flounders. They are called "lefteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their right sides, with both eyes on their left sides.[1] The family is also distinguished by the presence of spines on the snout and near the eyes.[2]
Lefteye flounders vary considerably in size between the more than 160 species, ranging from 4.5 cm (1.8 in) to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length.[2]
Taxonomy
The following genera are placed in this family:
- Arnoglossus
- Asterorhombus
- Bothus
- Chascanopsetta
- Crossorhombus
- Engyophrys
- Engyprosopon
- Grammatobothus
- Japonolaeops
- Kamoharaia
- Laeops
- Lophonectes
- Monolene
- Neolaeops
- Parabothus
- Perissias
- Psettina
- Taeniopsetta
- Tosarhombus
- Trichopsetta
The following fossil genera are also known:
- †Miobothus Chanet & Schultz, 1994 (Middle Miocene of Austria)[3]
- †Oligobothus Baciu & Chanet, 2002 (Early Oligocene of Romania and Poland)[4][5]
- †Oranobothus Chanet, 1996 (latest Miocene of Algeria)[6]
Gallery
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Scaldfish (Arnoglossus laterna) larva -
Wide-eyed flounder, Bothus podas -
Laeops macrophthalmus -
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Deepwater flounder, Monolene sessilicauda -
Sash flounder, Trichopsetta ventralis
See also
- Pleuronectidae, the righteye family of flounders
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Bothidae" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapleau, Francois; Amaoka, Kunio (1998). Paxton, J.R.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 224–225. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ↑ Chanet, Bruno; Schultz, Orwin (1994). "Pleuronectiform fishes from the Upper Badenian (Middle Miocene) of St. Margarethen (Austria)". Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien (96): 95–115. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230844383.
- ↑ Campbell, Matthew A.; Chanet, Bruno; Chen, Jhen-Nien; Lee, Mao-Ying; Chen, Wei-Jen (2019). "Origins and relationships of the Pleuronectoidei: Molecular and morphological analysis of living and fossil taxa" (in en). Zoologica Scripta 48 (5): 640–656. doi:10.1111/zsc.12372. ISSN 1463-6409. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zsc.12372.
- ↑ Kovalchuk, Oleksandr; Bienkowska-Wasiluk, Małgorzata; Dubikovska, Anastasiia; Świdnicka, Ewa; Stefaniak, Krzysztof; Khekalo, Olga; Barkaszi, Zoltán (2025). "Oligocene flatfishes (Teleostei, Pleuronectiformes) of the Outer Carpathian Basin". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 0. doi:10.1080/02724634.2025.2520490. ISSN 0272-4634. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2520490.
- ↑ "Oranobothus arambourgi n.g. n.sp.(Pisces, Pleuronectiformes, Bothidae) provenant du Messinien (Miocène supérieur) d'Oran (Algérie)" (in en). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4ème série – section C – Sciences de la Terre, Paléontologie, Géologie, Minéralogie 18 (4): 555–568. 1996. https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/bulletin-du-museum-national-d-histoire-naturelle-4eme-serie-section-c-sciences-de-la-terre-paleontologie-geologie-mineralogie/18/4/oranobothus-arambourgi-ng-nsppisces-pleuronectiformes-bothidae-provenant-du-messinien-miocene-superieur-d-oran.
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