Biology:Hippoglossoides

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Hippoglossoides is a genus of righteye flounders native to the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Hippoglossoides dubius Schmidt, 1904 (Flathead flounder)
  • Hippoglossoides elassodon Jordan & Gilbert, 1880 (Flathead sole)
  • Hippoglossoides platessoides (O. Fabricius, 1780) (American plaice)
  • Hippoglossoides robustus Gill & Townsend, 1897 (Bering flounder)

Three fossil species are also known:[2]

  • Hippoglossoides kumaishi Sakamoto & Uyeno, 1991 (Middle Miocene of Japan)[3]
  • Hippoglossoides naritai Sakamoto & Uyeno, 1989 (Middle Miocene of Japan)[4]
  • Hippoglossoides pristinus (Jordan, 1927) (Late Miocene of California, USA)[5]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Hippoglossoides in FishBase. October 2012 version.
  2. Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Uyeno, Teruya (1994). "Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish faunas of Japan" (in en). Island Arc 3 (4): 255–269. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00115.x. ISSN 1440-1738. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00115.x. 
  3. Sakamoto, Kazuo; Uyeno, Teruya (1991). "Hippoglossoides kumaishi, a new Miocene Righteye Flounder from Tokoro, Hokkaido, Japan". Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C 17 (4): 165-172. https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/17_4/BNSM_C170404.pdf. 
  4. Sakamoto, Kazuo; Uyeno, Teruya (1989). "A New Middle Miocene Righteye Flounder Hippoglossoides naritai from Tokoro, Hokkaido, Japan". Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C 15 (2): 71-79. https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/15_2/BNSM_C150203.pdf. 
  5. California Academy of Sciences (1890). Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences. https://archive.org/details/occasionalpaper00calif/occasionalpaper00calif/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2708737 entry