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| Hippoglossoides platessoides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Subfamily: | Pleuronectinae |
| Genus: | Hippoglossoides Gottsche, 1835 |
| Type species | |
| Hippoglossoides limanda Gottsche, 1835
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Hippoglossoides is a genus of righteye flounders native to the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans.
Species
[edit]There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Hippoglossoides dubius Schmidt, 1904 (Flathead flounder)
- Hippoglossoides elassodon Jordan & Gilbert, 1880 (Flathead sole)
- Hippoglossoides platessoides (O. Fabricius, 1780) (American plaice)
- Hippoglossoides robustus Gill & Townsend, 1897 (Bering flounder)
Three fossil species are also known:[2]
- †Hippoglossoides kumaishi Sakamoto & Uyeno, 1991 (Middle Miocene of Japan)[3]
- †Hippoglossoides naritai Sakamoto & Uyeno, 1989 (Middle Miocene of Japan)[4]
- †Hippoglossoides pristinus (Jordan, 1927) (Late Miocene of California, USA)[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hippoglossoides". FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ^ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Uyeno, Teruya (1994). "Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish faunas of Japan". Island Arc. 3 (4): 255–269. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00115.x. ISSN 1440-1738.
- ^ Sakamoto, Kazuo; Uyeno, Teruya (1991). "Hippoglossoides kumaishi, a new Miocene Righteye Flounder from Tokoro, Hokkaido, Japan" (PDF). Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C. 17 (4): 165–172.
- ^ Sakamoto, Kazuo; Uyeno, Teruya (1989). "A New Middle Miocene Righteye Flounder Hippoglossoides naritai from Tokoro, Hokkaido, Japan" (PDF). Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C. 15 (2): 71–79.
- ^ California Academy of Sciences (1890). Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences.
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