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Pseudopleuronectes

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Pseudopleuronectes is a genus of righteye flounders mostly native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean with one species (P. americanus) found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPleuronectiformes
  5. FamilyPleuronectidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded113,191

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
15
Family
Pleuronectidae
Collections
CUMV, USNM, FMNH, RU-NB
Recorded in
United States, Japan

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Pseudopleuronectes is a genus of righteye flounders mostly native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean with one species (P. americanus) found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean.

==Species== There are currently five recognized species in this genus: Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792) (Winter flounder) Pseudopleuronectes herzensteini (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (Yellow-striped flounder) Pseudopleuronectes obscurus (Herzenstein, 1890) (Dark flounder) Pseudopleuronectes schrenki (P. J. Schmidt, 1904) (Cresthead flounder) Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae (Günther, 1877) (Marbled flounder)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudopleuronectes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.