Limanda

<i>Limanda</i>

Limanda

Genus of flounders

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

Quick Facts Limanda, Scientific classification ...

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. [1]
    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: 147–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.014. PMID 29535031.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Limanda in FishBase. October 2012 version.


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