Samaridae
| Samaridae | |
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| Samariscus corallines | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Samaridae Jordan & , 1889 |
| Genera[5] | |
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Plagiopsetta[1] | |
The Samaridae are a family, the crested flounders, of small flatfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. They were formerly classified as a subfamily of Pleuronectidae. The family contains four genera with a total of almost 30 species.
References[]
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Plagiopsetta in FishBase. May 2014 version.
- ^ Voronina, E.P. & Suzumoto, A.Y. (2017): Samaretta perexilis, a New Genus and New Species of Samarid Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from the South Pacific. Journal of Ichthyology, 57 (1): 1–9.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Samaris in FishBase. May 2014 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Samariscus in FishBase. May 2014 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). "Samaridae" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
External links[]
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- Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
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