Poecilopsetta
| Poecilopsetta | |
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| Poecilopsetta plinthus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Subfamily: | Poecilopsettinae |
| Genus: | Poecilopsetta Günther, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880
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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.[1]
Species[]
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Norman, 1939
- Poecilopsetta beanii (Goode, 1881) (deepwater dab)
- Günther, 1880 (colored righteye flounder)
- & , 2001
- C. H. Gilbert, 1905
- (, 1927)
- , & Last, 2001
- , & , 2010
- Norman, 1931 (African righteye flounder)
- & , 1992
- & , 2006
- (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904) (tile-colored righteye flounder)
- Alcock, 1894 (Alcock's narrow-body righteye flounder)
- , & , 1988
- Norman, 1939
References[]
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Poecilopsetta in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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