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Limanda
Genus of flounders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Limanda is a genus of righteye flounders native to the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Limanda | |
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Common dab (L. limanda) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
Family: | Pleuronectidae |
Subfamily: | Pleuronectinae |
Genus: | Limanda Gottsche, 1835 |
Type species | |
Pleuronectes limanda | |
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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]