''Pegusa'' is a
genus
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of
soles native to the Eastern
Atlantic Ocean
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,
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...
, and
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...
.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
Pegusa cadenati''
Chabanaud, 1954 (Cadenat's sole)
* ''
Pegusa impar
''Pegusa'' is a genus of Soleidae, soles native to the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* ''Pegusa cadenati'' Paul Chabanaud, Chabanaud, 1954 (Cadenat's sole)
* ...
''
( E. T. Bennett, 1831) (Adriatic sole)
* ''
Pegusa lascaris''
( A. Risso, 1810) (sand sole)
* ''
Pegusa nasuta''
(Pallas
Pallas may refer to:
Astronomy
* 2 Pallas asteroid
** Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas
* Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
Mythology
* Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena
* Pa ...
, 1814) (blackhand sole)
* ''
Pegusa triophthalma''
( Bleeker, 1863) (Cyclope sole)
References
Soleidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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