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Genus of flounders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Limanda is a genus of righteye flounders native to the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
| Limanda | |
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| Common dab (L. limanda) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Subfamily: | Pleuronectinae |
| Genus: | Limanda Gottsche, 1835 |
| Type species | |
| Pleuronectes limanda | |
| Synonyms | |
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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]
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2]
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