Citharidae

The Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between .

Taxa include:

• Subfamily Brachypleurinae
• Genus Brachypleura
• Brachypleura novaezeelandiae Ã¢Â€Â“ yellow-dabbled flounder
• Genus Lepidoblepharon
• Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis Ã¢Â€Â“ scale-eyed flounder
• Subfamily Citharinae
• Genus Citharoides
• Citharoides axillaris
• Citharoides macrolepidotus Ã¢Â€Â“ branched ray flounder
• Citharoides macrolepis Ã¢Â€Â“ twospot largescale flounder
• Citharoides orbitalis
• Genus Citharus
• Citharus linguatula Ã¢Â€Â“ spotted flounder

The extinct genus †Rhombocitharus <small>Schwarzhans, 1994</small> is known from fossil otoliths from the early-mid Eocene of Denmark, the Oligocene of Germany, and the Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand.

References

• Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, .

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