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Nematops
Sign in to saveNematops is a genus of righteye flounders native to the Indo-West Pacific. Due to their small size (up to ) and depth of habitation (up to ) few examples of this genus are caught, and as a result little is known of their morphology and distribution.
Species
Longfin Righteye Flounder
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPleuronectiformes
- FamilyPleuronectidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 46
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Collections
- NMV, MNHN, UPS, AM, CSIRO
- Recorded in
- Australia, Polynesie, Peru, Salomon(I.), Philippines
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Nematops is a genus of righteye flounders native to the Indo-West Pacific. Due to their small size (up to ) and depth of habitation (up to ) few examples of this genus are caught, and as a result little is known of their morphology and distribution.
==Species== There are currently four recognized species in this genus: 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nematops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.