Limanda

Limanda
Common dab (L. limanda)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Subfamily:	Pleuronectinae
Genus:	Limanda Gottsche, 1835
Type species
Pleuronectes limanda Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Myzopsetta Gill, 1861

Limanda is a genus of righteye flounders native to the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

A 2018 cladistic morphological and genetic analysis found that the genus is not monophyletic, and has proposed L. ferruginea, L. proboscidea and L. punctatissima be placed in the genus Myzopsetta.^[1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Limanda aspera (Pallas, 1814) (Yellowfin sole)
• Limanda ferruginea (D. H. Storer (fr), 1839) (Yellowtail flounder)
• Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common dab)
• Limanda proboscidea C. H. Gilbert, 1896 (Longhead dab)
• Limanda punctatissima (Steindachner, 1879) (Speckled flounder)
• Limanda sakhalinensis C. L. Hubbs, 1915 (Sakhalin sole)

References

1. Vinnikov, Kirill A.; Thomson, Robert C.; Munroe, Thomas A. (2018). "Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 125: 147–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.014. PMID 29535031.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Limanda". FishBase. October 2012 version.