Clidoderma Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Carangiformes |
Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
Family: | Pleuronectidae |
Subfamily: | Hippoglossinae |
Genus: | Clidoderma Bleeker, 1862 |
Type species | |
Clidoderma asperrimum |
Clidoderma is a genus of righteye flounders containing one extant species and two described fossil species from Japan.
Two fossil species are known from the Middle Miocene of Japan. C. chitaensis Ohe & Kawase 1995 is known from the Yamami formation of the Chita Peninsula [1] and C. yamagataensis Sakamoto, Uyeno & Otsu 2001 known from Yamagata Prefecture. [2] An indeterminate fossil species is also known from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin, Russia. [3]
There is currently one recognized extant species in this genus: [4]