''Hippoglossoides'' is a

genus 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 nom ...

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

North Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

and North Atlantic oceans.

Species

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

Hippoglossoides dubius The flathead flounder (''Hippoglossoides dubious'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms in shallow coastal waters, at depths of between . Its native habitat is the northwestern Pacific, particul ...

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, 1904 (Flathead flounder) * ''

Hippoglossoides elassodon The flathead sole (''Hippoglossoides elassodon'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on soft, silty or muddy bottoms at depths of up to . Its native habitat is the northern Pacific, from the seas of Japan ...

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& Gilbert, 1880 (Flathead sole) * ''

Hippoglossoides platessoides The American plaice, American sole or long rough dab (''Hippoglossoides platessoides'') is a North Atlantic flatfish that belongs, along with other right-eyed flounders, to the family Pleuronectidae. In the northwest Atlantic (''H. p. platessoide ...

'' ( O. Fabricius, 1780) (American plaice) * ''

Hippoglossoides robustus The Bering flounder (''Hippoglossoides robustus'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of up to . It reaches up to in length. Its native habitat is the northern Pacific, from Japan an ...

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, 1897 (Bering flounder)

References

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