Limanda

Limanda
	Common dab (L. limanda)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Pleuronectiformes
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Subfamily:	Pleuronectinae
Genus:	Limanda; Gottsche, 1835
Type species
	Pleuronectes limanda; Linnaeus, 1758
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[edit]

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

Limanda aspera (Pallas, 1814) (Yellowfin sole)
Limanda ferruginea (D. H. Storer (fr), 1839) (Yellowtail flounder)
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common dab)
Limanda proboscidea C. H. Gilbert, 1896 (Longhead dab)
Limanda punctatissima (Steindachner, 1879) (Speckled flounder)
Limanda sakhalinensis C. L. Hubbs, 1915 (Sakhalin sole)

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Limanda in FishBase. October 2012 version.

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[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] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Limanda in FishBase. October 2012 version.

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