Biology:Citharidae
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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
- ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Citharidae de Buen, 1935" (in en). https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125577.
- ↑ 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" (in en). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 246 (1): 69–81. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0246-0069. ISSN 0077-7749. Bibcode: 2007NJGPA.246...69S. http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/246/59191/Otoliths_from_casts_from_the_Eocene_Lillebaelt_Cla?af=crossref.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=txn:361153.
- 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q378142 entry
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