Poecilopsetta

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Kingdom Animalia Family Pleuronectidae Phylum Chordata Order Flatfish		Class Actinopterygii Scientific name Poecilopsetta Rank Genus
Similar Flatfish, Deepwater dab, Poecilopsettidae, Ammotretis, Colistium

Poecilopsetta is a genus of small righteye flounders mainly found in deep water in the Indo-Pacific. Two species, P. beanii and P. inermis, are from the West Atlantic.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

Poecilopsetta albomaculata Norman, 1939

Poecilopsetta beanii (Goode, 1881) (deepwater dab)

Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880 (colored righteye flounder)

Poecilopsetta dorsialta Guibord & Chapleau, 2001

Poecilopsetta hawaiiensis C. H. Gilbert, 1905

Poecilopsetta inermis (Breder, 1927)

Poecilopsetta macrocephala Hoshino, Amaoka & Last, 2001

Poecilopsetta multiradiata Kawai, Amaoka & Séret, 2010

Poecilopsetta natalensis Norman, 1931 (African righteye flounder)

Poecilopsetta normani Foroshchuk & Fedorov, 1992

Poecilopsetta pectoralis Kawai & Amaoka, 2006

Poecilopsetta plinthus (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904) (tile-colored righteye flounder)

Poecilopsetta praelonga Alcock, 1894 (Alcock's narrow-body righteye flounder)

Poecilopsetta vaynei Quéro, Hensley & Maugé, 1988

Poecilopsetta zanzibarensis Norman, 1939

References

Poecilopsetta Wikipedia

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