Limanda
Common dab (L. limanda)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Pleuronectidae
Subfamily: Pleuronectinae
Genus: Limanda
Gottsche, 1835
Type species
Pleuronectes limanda
Synonyms
  • Myzopsetta Gill, 1861

Limanda is a genus of righteye flounders native to the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

A 2018 cladistic morphological and genetic analysis found that the genus is not monophyletic, and has proposed L. ferruginea, L. proboscidea and L. punctatissima be placed in the genus Myzopsetta.[1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. โ†‘ Vinnikov, Kirill A.; Thomson, Robert C.; Munroe, Thomas A. (2018). "Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 125: 147โ€“162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.014. PMID 29535031.
  2. โ†‘ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Limanda in FishBase. October 2012 version.


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