Paraplagusia
| Paraplagusia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Cynoglossidae |
| Genus: | Paraplagusia Bleeker, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Pleuronectes bilineatus Bloch, 1787 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Paraplagusia in FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kottelat, M. (2013): Nomenclature and identity of the tongue soles Paraplagusia bilineata, “Cynoglossus bilineatus” and Paraplagusia blochii (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 61 (2): 763–766.