Paraplagusia

Paraplagusia
	Paraplagusia bilineata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Family:	Cynoglossidae
Subfamily:	Cynoglossinae
Genus:	Paraplagusia; Bleeker, 1865
Type species
	Pleuronectes bilineatus; Bloch, 1787
Synonyms
	Rhinoplagusia Bleeker, 1870; Usinostia D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1900;

Paraplagusia is a genus of tonguefish. It is indigenous to the Indo-Pacific region, where commonly found in shallow waters on a muddy or sandy bottom. The largest species reaches 35 cm (14 in) in length.^[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:^[1]^[2]

Paraplagusia bilineata (Bloch, 1787) (doublelined tongue sole)
Paraplagusia bleekeri Kottelat, 2013 (Bloch's tongue sole)^[2]
Paraplagusia guttata (W. J. Macleay, 1878)
Paraplagusia japonica (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (black cow-tongue)
Paraplagusia longirostris Chapleau, Renaud & Kailola, 1991 (long-snouted tongue sole)
Paraplagusia sinerama Chapleau & Renaud, 1993 (dusky tongue sole)

References

^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Paraplagusia". FishBase. October 2012 version.
^ ^a ^b Kottelat, M. (2013): Nomenclature and identity of the tongue soles Paraplagusia bilineata, “Cynoglossus bilineatus” and Paraplagusia blochii (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes). Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 61 (2): 763–766.

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[fishbase-1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Paraplagusia". FishBase. October 2012 version.

[Kottelat2013-2] Kottelat, M. (2013): Nomenclature and identity of the tongue soles Paraplagusia bilineata, “Cynoglossus bilineatus” and Paraplagusia blochii (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes). Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 61 (2): 763–766.

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