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Citharidae
Sign in to saveThe Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between .
Species
citharids
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPleuronectiformes
- FamilyCitharidae
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- Specimen records
- 17
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- 1
- Family
- Citharidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, UCMP, NMV, MNHN, QM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Angola, United States, Italy, Vanuatu, Australia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea
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- Pleuronectiformes
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- Citharoides macrolepis.JPG
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The Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between .
Taxa include: Subfamily Brachypleurinae Genus Brachypleura Brachypleura novaezeelandiae – yellow-dabbled flounder Genus Lepidoblepharon Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis – scale-eyed flounder Subfamily Citharinae Genus Citharoides Citharoides axillaris Citharoides macrolepidotus – branched ray flounder Citharoides macrolepis – twospot largescale flounder Citharoides orbitalis Genus Citharus Citharus linguatula – spotted flounder The extinct genus †Rhombocitharus Schwarzhans, 1994 is known from fossil otoliths from the early-mid Eocene of Denmark, the Oligocene of Germany, and the Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand.
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