The true soles are a family, Soleidae, of flatfish

Flatfish

The flatfish are an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes. In many species, both eyes lie on one side of the head, one or the other migrating through and around the head during development...

es, and include species that live in salt water

Seawater

Seawater is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% . This means that every kilogram of seawater has approximately of dissolved salts . The average density of seawater at the ocean surface is 1.025 g/ml...

 and fresh water

Fresh Water

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. They are bottom-dwelling fishes feeding on small crustacean

Crustacean

Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...

s and other invertebrate

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...

s. Other flatfishes are also known as sole

Sole (fish)

Sole is a group of flatfish belonging to several families. Generally speaking, they are members of the family Soleidae, but, outside Europe, the name sole is also applied to various other similar flatfish, especially other members of the sole suborder Soleoidei as well as members of the flounder...

s.

Soles begin life as bilaterally symmetric larva

Larva

A larva is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle...

e, with an eye on each side of the head. But during development the left eye moves around onto the right side of the head. Adult soles lie on their left (blind) side on the sea floor, often covered in mud which, in combination with their dark colours, makes them hard to spot.

Soles (along with 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) were observed by the Bathyscaphe Trieste

Bathyscaphe Trieste

The Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe with a crew of two, which reached a record maximum depth of about , in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam, on January 23, 1960, crewed by Jacques Piccard ...

 at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about long but has a mean width of only...

 at a depth of 35,798 feet (10,911 m).

Many soles are important food species: the Common sole

Common sole

The common sole, Dover sole, or black sole, Solea solea, is a species of flatfish in the Soleidae family.It has a preference for relatively shallow water with sand or mud covering the bottom....

, Solea solea, is popular in northern Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and the Mediterranean.

Species

FishBase

FishBase

FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish species . It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web...

 lists 135 species in 28 genera but comments, "The taxonomy of this family needs revision."

• Genus Achiroides
  • Achiroides leucorhynchos (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1851).
  • Achiroides melanorhynchus (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1851).
• Genus Aesopia
  • Unicorn sole, Aesopia cornuta (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
    
• Genus Aseraggodes
  • Aseraggodes bahamondei (Randall & Meléndez, 1987).
  • Aseraggodes borehami (Randall, 1996).
  • Aseraggodes crypticus (Randall & Allen, 2007).
  • Aseraggodes cyaneus (Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock
    Alfred 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...
    
    , 1890).
  • Aseraggodes dubius (Weber, 1913).
  • Aseraggodes filiger (Weber, 1913).
  • Aseraggodes firmisquamis (Randall & Bartsch, 2005).
  • Aseraggodes guttulatus (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
  • Southern sole, Aseraggodes haackeanus (Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
    
    , 1883).
  • Aseraggodes heraldi (Randall & Bartsch, 2005).
  • Herre's sole, Aseraggodes herrei (Seale, 1940).
  • Aseraggodes holcomi (Randall, 2002).
  • Aseraggodes kaianus (Günther, 1880).
  • Tailed sole, Aseraggodes klunzingeri (Weber, 1907).
  • Aseraggodes kobensis (Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
    
    , 1896).
  • Narrowbanded sole, Aseraggodes macleayanus (Ramsay, 1881).
  • Mottled sole, Aseraggodes melanostictus (Peters
    Wilhelm Peters
    Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
    
    , 1877).
  • Aseraggodes microlepidotus (Fowler, 1946).
  • Aseraggodes normani (Chabanaud, 1930).
  • Aseraggodes ocellatus (Weed, 1961).
  • Ocellated sole, Aseraggodes persimilis (Günther, 1909).
  • Aseraggodes ramsayi (Ogilby
    William Ogilby
    William Ogilby was an Irish barrister and naturalist.Ogilby was honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839 to 1846....
    
    , 1889).
  • Aseraggodes sinusarabici (Chabanaud, 1931).
  • Smith's sole, Aseraggodes smithi (Woods, 1966).
  • Aseraggodes texturatus (Weber, 1913).
  • Aseraggodes therese (Randall, 1996).
  • Whitaker's sole, Aseraggodes whitakeri (Woods, 1966).
• Genus Austroglossus
  • West coast sole, Austroglossus microlepis (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1863).
  • Mud sole, Austroglossus pectoralis (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
• Genus Bathysolea
  • Bathysolea lactea (Roule, 1916).
  • Bathysolea lagarderae (Quéro & Desoutter, 1990).
  • Bathysolea polli (Chabanaud, 1950).
  • Deepwater sole, Bathysolea profundicola (Vaillant
    Léon Vaillant
    Léon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology...
    
    , 1888).
• Genus Brachirus
  • Brachirus aenea (Smith, 1931).
  • Annular sole, Brachirus annularis (Fowler, 1934).
  • Brachirus aspilos (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1852).
  • Brachirus dicholepis (Peters
    Wilhelm Peters
    Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
    
    , 1877).
  • Mekong blind sole, Brachirus elongatus (Day, 1877).
  • Brachirus harmandi (Sauvage, 1878).
  • Brachirus heterolepis (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1856).
  • Brachirus macrolepis (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1858).
  • Tufted sole, Brachirus muelleri (Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
    
    , 1879).
  • Oriental sole, Brachirus orientalis (Bloch
    Marcus Elieser Bloch
    Marcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
    
     & Schneider
    Johann Gottlob Schneider
    Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
    
    , 1801).
  • Pan sole, Brachirus pan (Hamilton
    Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
    Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India.The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to...
    
    , 1822).
  • Brachirus panoides (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1851).
  • Brachirus siamensis (Sauvage, 1878).
  • Brachirus sorsogonensis (Evermann & Seale, 1907).
  • Brachirus swinhonis (Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
    
    , 1867).
• Genus Buglossidium
  • Solenette
    Solenette
    The solenette or yellow sole, Buglossidium luteum, is a species of flatfish in the family Soleidae, and the only member of its genus. It is characterized by its small size, low-slung semi-circular mouth, and regularly placed dark fin rays. A common and widespread species, it is native to sandy...
    
    , Buglossidium luteum (Risso
    Antoine Risso
    Giuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
    
    , 1810).
    
• Genus Dagetichthys
  • Dagetichthys lakdoensis (Stauch & Blanc, 1964).
• Genus Dicologlossa
  • Wedge sole, Dicologlossa cuneata (Moreau, 1881).
  • Ocellated wedge sole, Dicologlossa hexophthalma (Bennett, 1831).
• Genus Heteromycteris
  • Cape sole, Heteromycteris capensis (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
  • Hook-nosed sole, Heteromycteris hartzfeldii (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1853).
  • Bamboo sole, Heteromycteris japonicus (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1860).
  • Heteromycteris matsubarai (Ochiai, 1963).
  • Eyed sole, Heteromycteris oculus (Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock
    Alfred 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...
    
    , 1889).
  • True sole, Heteromycteris proboscideus (Chabanaud, 1925).
• Genus Leptachirus
  • Leptachirus alleni (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus bensbach (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus darwinensis (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus kikori (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus lorentz (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus polylepis (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus robertsi (Randall, 2007).
  • Leptachirus triramus (Randall, 2007).
• Genus Liachirus
  • Liachirus melanospilos (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1854).
  • Liachirus whitleyi (Chabanaud, 1950).
• Genus Microchirus
  • Microchirus azevia (Brito Capello, 1867).
  • Lusitanian sole, Microchirus boscanion (Chabanaud, 1926).
  • Frechkop's sole, Microchirus frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952).
  • Foureyed sole, Microchirus ocellatus (Weed, 1961).
  • Bastard sole, Microchirus theophila (Risso
    Antoine Risso
    Giuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
    
    , 1810).
  • Thickback sole, Microchirus variegatus (Donovan, 1808).
  • Banded sole, Microchirus wittei (Chabanaud, 1950).
• Genus Monochirus
  • Whiskered sole, Monochirus hispidus (Rafinesque, 1814).
  • Monochirus trichodactylus (Linnaeus, 1758).
• Genus Parachirus
  • Parachirus diringeri (Quéro, 1997).
  • Dwarf sole, Parachirus xenicus (Matsubara & Ochiai, 1963).
• Genus Paradicula
  • Paradicula setifer (Paradice, 1927).
• Genus Pardachirus
  • Piebald sole, Pardachirus balius (Randall & Mee, 1994).
  • Southern peacock sole, Pardachirus hedleyi (Ogilby
    William Ogilby
    William Ogilby was an Irish barrister and naturalist.Ogilby was honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839 to 1846....
    
    , 1916).
  • Finless sole, Pardachirus marmoratus
    Pardachirus marmoratus
    Pardachirus marmoratus, also known as the finless sole or the Red Sea Moses sole is a small fish from the Red Sea that secretes an ichthyotoxic milky substance from the base of its dorsal and anal fins. This secretion contains pardaxin, a lipophillic peptide that causes severe plasma membrane...
    
    (Lacépède, 1802).
  • Persian carpet sole, Pardachirus morrowi (Chabanaud, 1954).
  • Peacock sole, Pardachirus pavoninus (Lacépède, 1802).
  • Estuary sole, Pardachirus poropterus (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1851).
• Genus Pegusa
  • Cadenat's sole, Pegusa cadenati (Chabanaud, 1954).
  • Adriatic sole, Pegusa impar (Bennett, 1831).
  • Sand sole, Pegusa lascaris (Risso
    Antoine Risso
    Giuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
    
    , 1810).
  • Cyclope sole, Pegusa triophthalma (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1863).
• Genus Phyllichthys
  • Spotted sole, Phyllichthys punctatus (McCulloch, 1916).
  • Phyllichthys sclerolepis (Macleay, 1878).
  • Phyllichthys sejunctus (Whitley, 1935).
• Genus Rendahlia
  • Rendahlia jaubertensis (Rendahl, 1921).
• Genus Rhinosolea
  • Rhinosolea microlepidota (Fowler, 1946).
• Genus Solea
  • Egyptian sole, Solea aegyptiaca (Chabanaud, 1927).
  • Blackhand sole, Solea bleekeri (Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
    
    , 1898).
  • Solea capensis (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
  • Elongate sole, Solea elongata (Day, 1877).
  • Solea fulvomarginata (Gilchrist, 1904).
  • Solea heinii (Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner
    Franz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
    
    , 1903).
  • Solea humilis (Cantor
    Theodore Edward Cantor
    Theodore Edward Cantor was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist.Cantor worked for the British East India Company. He made natural history collections in Penang and Malacca...
    
    , 1849).
  • Ovate sole, Solea ovata (Richardson
    John Richardson (naturalist)
    Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
    
    , 1846).
  • Senegalese sole, Solea senegalensis (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
  • Common sole
    Common sole
    The common sole, Dover sole, or black sole, Solea solea, is a species of flatfish in the Soleidae family.It has a preference for relatively shallow water with sand or mud covering the bottom....
    
    , Solea solea (Linnaeus
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
    
    , 1758).
    
  • Stanaland's sole, Solea stanalandi (Randall & McCarthy, 1989).
• Genus Soleichthys
  • Soleichthys heterorhinos
    Soleichthys heterorhinos
    Soleichthys heterorhinos is a sole from the Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 18cm in length....
    
    (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1856).
  • Soleichthys maculosus (Muchhala & Munroe, 2004).
  • Small-head sole, Soleichthys microcephalus (Günther, 1862).
  • Soleichthys siammakuti (Wongratana, 1975).
  • Soleichthys tubifera (Peters
    Wilhelm Peters
    Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
    
    , 1876).
• Genus Strabozebrias
  • Harrowed sole, Strabozebrias cancellatus (McCulloch, 1916).
• Genus Synaptura
  • Kaup's sole, Synaptura albomaculata (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
  • Guinean sole, Synaptura cadenati (Chabanaud, 1954).
  • Commerson's sole, Synaptura commersonnii (Lacépède, 1802).
  • Portuguese sole, Synaptura lusitanica lusitanica (Brito Capello, 1868).
  • Synaptura lusitanica nigromaculata (Pellegrin, 1905).
  • White-margined sole, Synaptura marginata (Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
    
    , 1900).
  • Synaptura megalepidoura (Fowler, 1934).
  • Black sole, Synaptura nigra (Macleay, 1880).
  • Saltpan sole, Synaptura salinarum (Ogilby
    William Ogilby
    William Ogilby was an Irish barrister and naturalist.Ogilby was honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839 to 1846....
    
    , 1910).
  • Selheim's sole, Synaptura selheimi (Macleay, 1882).
  • Velvety sole, Synaptura villosa (Weber, 1907).
• Genus Synapturichthys
  • Klein's sole, Synapturichthys kleinii (Risso
    Antoine Risso
    Giuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
    
    , 1827).
• Genus Typhlachirus
  • Typhlachirus caecus (Hardenberg, 1931).
• Genus Vanstraelenia
  • African solenette, Vanstraelenia chirophthalma (Regan, 1915).
• Genus Zebrias
  • Zebrias altipinnis (Alcock
    Alfred William Alcock
    Alfred 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...
    
    , 1890).
  • Zebrias annandalei (Talwar & Chakrapany, 1967).
  • Convict zebra sole, Zebrias captivus (Randall, 1995).
  • Wicker work sole, Zebrias craticula (McCulloch, 1916).
  • Zebrias crossolepis (Zheng & Chang, 1965).
  • Zebrias fasciatus (Basilewsky, 1855).
  • Wavyband sole, Zebrias japonica (Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker
    Pieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
    
    , 1860).
  • Zebrias keralensis (Joglekar, 1976).
  • Zebrias lucapensis (Seigel & Adamson, 1985).
  • Zebrias maculosus (Oommen, 1977).
  • Zebrias munroi (Whitley, 1966).
  • Duskybanded sole, Zebrias penescalaris (Gomon, 1987).
  • Fringefin zebra sole, Zebrias quagga (Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1858).
  • South African zebra sole, Zebrias regani (Gilchrist, 1906).
  • Many-band sole, Zebrias scalaris (Gomon, 1987).
  • Indian zebra sole, Zebrias synapturoides (Jenkins, 1910).
  • Zebra sole, Zebrias zebra (Bloch
    Marcus Elieser Bloch
    Marcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
    
    , 1787).
  • Zebrias zebrinus (Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck
    Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
    
     & Schlegel
    Hermann Schlegel
    Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
    
    , 1846).