Southern flounder

Southern flounder
	Neoachiropsetta milfordi
Systematics
	Spinefish (Acanthopterygii)
	Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae)
	Carangaria
Order :	Carangiformes
Partial order :	Flatfish (Pleuronectoideo)
Family :	Southern flounder
Scientific name
	Achiropsettidae
	Heemstra , 1990

The southern flounder (Achiropsettidae ( Greek. A = without, eiros = hand psetta = turbot)) are a family of flatfish . They live in the Southern Ocean , as well as the Falkland Islands , the Patagonian coast , the Kerguelen , the Crozet Islands and Campbell Island .

features

Her body is very flattened on the sides, both eyes are on the left side. The dorsal and anal fin are separated from the caudal fin . The southern flounder has no fin spines . The pectoral fins are only rudimentary in juvenile fish, they are absent in adult fish. The lateral line organ is well developed and straight on both sides of the body. Southern flounder grow to be between eleven and 57 centimeters long.

Genera and species

Achiropsetta Norman, 1930
- Achiropsetta tricholepis Norman, 1930
Mancopsetta Gill, 1881
- Mancopsetta maculata (Günther, 1880)
Neoachiropsetta Kotlyar, 1978
- Neoachiropsetta milfordi (Penrith, 1965)
Pseudomancopsetta Evseenko, 1984
- Pseudomancopsetta andriashevi Evseenko, 1984

Systematics

The Achiropsettidae family was first established in 1990 by the South African ichthyologist Phillip C. Heemstra . In the latest revision of the bony fish classification by Ricardo Betancur-R and colleagues, they were synonymous with the family Rhombosoleidae , since the Rhombosoleidae are otherwise not a monophyletic taxon .

literature

Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ricardo Betancur-R, Edward O. Wiley, Gloria Arratia, Arturo Acero, Nicolas Bailly, Masaki Miya, Guillaume Lecointre and Guillermo Ortí: Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC series - July 2017, DOI: 10.1186 / s12862-017-0958-3 .

Web links

Commons : Southern Flounders - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Southern flounder on Fishbase.org (English)

[1] Ricardo Betancur-R, Edward O. Wiley, Gloria Arratia, Arturo Acero, Nicolas Bailly, Masaki Miya, Guillaume Lecointre and Guillermo Ortí: Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC series - July 2017, DOI: 10.1186 / s12862-017-0958-3 .