Poecilopsetta

Poecilopsetta
	Poecilopsetta plinthus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Family:	Poecilopsettidae
Genus:	Poecilopsetta; Günther, 1880
Type species
	Poecilopsetta colorata; Günther, 1880

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.^[1]

Species

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

Poecilopsetta albomaculata Norman, 1939
Poecilopsetta beanii (Goode, 1881) (deepwater dab)
Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880 (colored righteye flounder)
Poecilopsetta dorsialta Guibord & Chapleau, 2001
Poecilopsetta hawaiiensis C. H. Gilbert, 1905
Poecilopsetta inermis (Breder, 1927)
Poecilopsetta macrocephala Hoshino, Amaoka & Last, 2001
Poecilopsetta multiradiata Kawai, Amaoka & Séret, 2010
Poecilopsetta natalensis Norman, 1931 (African righteye flounder)
Poecilopsetta normani Foroshchuk & Fedorov, 1992
Poecilopsetta pectoralis Kawai & Amaoka, 2006
Poecilopsetta plinthus (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904) (tile-colored righteye flounder)
Poecilopsetta praelonga Alcock, 1894 (Alcock's narrow-body righteye flounder)
Poecilopsetta vaynei Quéro, Hensley & Maugé, 1988
Poecilopsetta zanzibarensis Norman, 1939

References

^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Poecilopsetta". FishBase. October 2012 version.

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

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