Poecilopsetta is a genus of small righteye flounders mainly found in deep water in the Indo-Pacific. Two species, P. beanii and P. inermis, are from the West Atlantic.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
- Poecilopsetta albomaculata <small>Norman, 1939</small>
- Poecilopsetta beanii <small>(Goode, 1881)</small> (deepwater dab)
- Poecilopsetta colorata <small>Günther, 1880</small> (colored righteye flounder)
- Poecilopsetta dorsialta <small>Guibord & Chapleau, 2001</small>
- Poecilopsetta hawaiiensis <small>C. H. Gilbert, 1905</small>
- Poecilopsetta inermis <small>(Breder, 1927)</small>
- Poecilopsetta macrocephala <small>Hoshino, Amaoka & Last, 2001</small>
- Poecilopsetta multiradiata <small>Kawai, Amaoka & Séret, 2010</small>
- Poecilopsetta natalensis <small>Norman, 1931</small> (African righteye flounder)
- Poecilopsetta normani <small>Foroshchuk & Fedorov, 1992</small>
- Poecilopsetta pectoralis <small>Kawai & Amaoka, 2006</small>
- Poecilopsetta plinthus <small>(D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904)</small> (tile-colored righteye flounder)
- Poecilopsetta praelonga <small>Alcock, 1894</small> (Alcock's narrow-body righteye flounder)
- Poecilopsetta vaynei <small>Quéro, Hensley & Maugé, 1988</small>
- Poecilopsetta zanzibarensis <small>Norman, 1939</small>
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