''Limanda'' is a

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righteye flounder Pleuronectidae, also known as righteye flounders, are a family of flounders. They are called "righteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their left sides, with both eyes on their right sides. The Paralichthyidae are the op ...

s native to the northern

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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''.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * ''

Limanda aspera The yellowfin sole (''Limanda aspera'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on soft, sandy bottoms at depths of up to , though it is most commonly found at depths of around . Its native habitat is the tempe ...

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, 1814) (Yellowfin sole) * ''

Limanda ferruginea The yellowtail flounder (''Limanda ferruginea''), also known as the rusty dab, is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders). Reaching in length, it has reddish brown upperparts, pale underparts and yellow fins. Bot ...

'' ( D. H. Storer ( fr), 1839) (Yellowtail flounder) * ''

Limanda limanda The common dab (''Limanda limanda'') is an edible flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish native to shallow seas around Northern Europe, in particular the North Sea, where it lives on sandy bottoms down to depths of about . I ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

) (Common dab) * ''

Limanda proboscidea The longhead dab (''Limanda proboscidea'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of up to , though it is most commonly found between . Its native habitat is the temperate waters of the n ...

'' C. H. Gilbert, 1896 (Longhead dab) * ''

Limanda punctatissima The speckled flounder (''Limanda punctatissima'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms in the temperate waters of the northwestern Pacific, from the southern Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril islands ...

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Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner describ ...

, 1879) (Speckled flounder) * ''

Limanda sakhalinensis The Sakhalin sole (''Limanda sakhalinensis'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of between , though it is most commonly found between around . Its native habitat is the polar waters ...

'' C. L. Hubbs, 1915 (Sakhalin sole)

References

Pleuronectidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Carl Moritz Gottsche {{Pleuronectiformes-stub