Poecilopsetta
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Poecilopsetta is a genus
of fish in the Pleuronectidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of fish in the Pleuronectidae
Pleuronectidae
Righteye flounders are a family, Pleuronectidae, of flounders. They are called "righteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their left side, with both eyes on the right side. The Paralichthyidae are the opposite, with their eyes on the left side.Their dorsal and anal fins are...
family.
Species
- Poecilopsetta albomaculata (Norman, 1939).
- Deepwater dabDeepwater dabThe deepwater dab, Poecilopsetta beanii, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a bathydemersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of . It can reach in length...
, Poecilopsetta beanii (GoodeGeorge Brown GoodeGeorge Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America. Goode graduated from Wesleyan University and studied at Harvard University...
, 1881). - Coloured righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta colorata (Günther, 1880).
- Poecilopsetta dorsialta (Guibord & Chapleau, 2001).
- Poecilopsetta hawaiiensis (Gilbert, 1905).
- Poecilopsetta inermis (Breder, 1927).
- Poecilopsetta macrocephala (Breder, 1936).
- Fowler's large-scale righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta megalepis (Fowler, 1934).
- African righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta natalensis (Norman, 1931).
- Poecilopsetta normani (Foroshchuk & Fedorov, 1992).
- Poecilopsetta pectoralis (Kawai & Amaoka, 2006).
- Tile-colored righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta plinthus (JordanDavid Starr JordanDavid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
& Starks, 1904). - Alcock's narrow-body righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta praelonga (AlcockAlfred William AlcockAlfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...
, 1894). - Poecilopsetta vaynei (Quéro, Hensley & Maugé, 1988).
- Poecilopsetta zanzibarensis (Norman, 1939).