Plagiopsetta

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Plagiopsetta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Family: Samaridae
Genus: Plagiopsetta
V. Franz, 1910
Type species
Plagiopsetta glossa
Franz, 1910

Plagiopsetta is a genus of crested flounders native to the western Pacific Ocean.

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Samaridae family of flatfish

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.

Pacific Ocean Ocean between Asia and Australia in the west, the Americas in the east and Antarctica or the Southern Ocean in the south.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: [1]

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References

  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Plagiopsetta in FishBase . December 2012 version.