Biology:Nematops

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Nematops
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Pleuronectidae
Subfamily: Poecilopsettinae
Genus: Nematops
Günther, 1880
Type species
Nematops microstoma
Günther 1880

Nematops is a genus of righteye flounders native to the Indo-West Pacific. Due to their small size (up to 10 centimetres or 3.9 inches) and depth of habitation (up to 650 metres or 2,130 feet) few examples of this genus are caught, and as a result little is known of their morphology and distribution.[1]

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Nematops grandisquama Weber & de Beaufort, 1929 (Large-scale righteye flounder)
  • Nematops macrochirus Norman, 1931 (Narrow-body righteye flounder)
  • Nematops microstoma Günther, 1880 (Small-mouth righteye flounder)
  • Nematops nanosquama Amaoka, Kawai & Séret, 2006

References

  1. Voronina, E.P.; Evseenko, S.A. (2008). "Second finding of Nematops microstoma Günther, 1880 (Pleuronectiformes, Poecilopsettidae) in the equatorial pacific". Journal of Ichthyology 48 (4): 479–484. doi:10.1134/S0032945208070023. 
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Nematops in FishBase. October 2012 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q5095668 entry