- Nematops
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Nematops Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Pleuronectiformes Family: Pleuronectidae Genus: Nematops Nematops is a genus of fish in the Pleuronectidae family, comprising four species distributed in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific. Due to their small size (up to 10 centimetres (3.9 in)) and depth of habitation (up to 650 metres (2,130 ft)) few examples of this genus are caught, and as a result little is known of their morphology and distribution.[1]
Species
- Narrow-body righteye flounder, Nematops macrochirus (Norman, 1931).
- Large-scale righteye flounder, Nematops grandisquama (Weber & de Beaufort, 1929).
- Small-mouth righteye flounder, Nematops microstoma (Günther, 1880).
- Nematops nanosquama (Amaoka, Kawai & Seret, 2006).
References
- ^ Voronina, E.P.; Evseenko, S.A. (2008). "Second finding of Nematops microstoma Günther, 1880 (Pleuronectiformes, Poecilopsettidae) in the equatorial pacific". Journal of Ichthyology 48 (4): 479–484. doi: 10.1134/S0032945208070023. http://www.springerlink.com/content/q4533203t62u0571/. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
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