Citharidae
Encyclopedia
The Citharidae are a small family
of flounder
s. They are found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean
and the western Pacific from Japan
to Australia
.
Species reach lengths ranging between14 to 36 cm.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of flounder
Flounder
The flounder is an ocean-dwelling flatfish species that is found in coastal lagoons and estuaries of the Northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.-Taxonomy:There are a number of geographical and taxonomical species to which flounder belong.*Western Atlantic...
s. They are found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
and the western Pacific from Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Species reach lengths ranging between14 to 36 cm.
Species
- Genus Brachypleura (Günther, 1862)
- Brachypleura novaezeelandiae (Günther, 1862)
- Genus Citharoides (HubbsCarl Leavitt Hubbs-Youth:He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs . The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history...
1915)- Citharoides axillaris (FowlerHenry Weed FowlerHenry Weed Fowler was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan...
, 1934) - Citharoides macrolepidotus (Hubbs, 1915)
- Citharoides macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904)
- Citharoides orbitalis (Hoshino, 2000)
- Citharoides axillaris (Fowler
- Genus Citharus (Artedi 1793)
- Citharus linguatula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Genus Lepidoblepharon (Weber 1913)
- Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis (Weber, 1913)