The Poecilopsettidae are a family of flatfish in the order Pleuronectiformes, comprising three

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

and 21 species. Species are typically

demersal The demersal zone is the part of the sea or ocean (or deep lake) consisting of the part of the water column near to (and significantly affected by) the seabed and the benthos. The demersal zone is just above the benthic zone and forms a layer of ...

, living on

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bottoms at depths between in the

Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...

and northwestern Atlantic; the deepest recorded occurrence is in the

deepwater dab The deepwater dab (''Poecilopsetta beanii'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a bathydemersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of . It can reach in length. Its native habitat is the western Atlantic and Caribbean, from New E ...

, ''Poecilopsetta beanii''. Sizes range from in length, though most species are usually under long. Diets consist of zoobenthos. In some traditional classifications, the group was recognisied as subfamily Poecilopsettinae in the family

Pleuronectidae 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 ...

Genera

* ''

Marleyella ''Marleyella'' is a genus of righteye flounders native to the western Indian Ocean where found at depths ranging from the shallows to more than . Species There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Marleyella bicolorata'' ( v ...

'' * ''

Nematops ''Nematops'' is a genus of righteye flounders native to the Indo-West Pacific. Due to their small size (up to ) and depth of habitation (up to ) few examples of this genus are caught, and as a result little is known of their morphology and dist ...

'' * '' Poecilopsetta''

References

Pleuronectidae Fish subfamilies {{Pleuronectiformes-stub