Citharidae

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Citharidae
Temporal range: Eocene–present
File:Citharoides macrolepis.JPG
Citharoides macrolepis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Pleuronectoidei
Family: Citharidae
de Buen, 1935
Type genus
Citharus
Artedi, 1793
Subfamilies
  • Brachypleurinae
  • Citharinae

The Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between 14 and 36 centimetres (5.5 and 14.2 in).[1]

Taxa include:

The extinct genus †Rhombocitharus Schwarzhans, 1994 is known from fossil otoliths from the early-mid Eocene of Denmark, the Oligocene of Germany, and the Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand.[2][3]

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