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Definition of Pleuronectidae
1. Noun. Righteye flounders.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Heterosomata, Order Heterosomata, Order Pleuronectiformes
Member holonyms: Righteye Flounder, Righteyed Flounder, Genus Pleuronectes, Pleuronectes, Genus Platichthys, Platichthys, Genus Limanda, Limanda, Genus Pseudopleuronectes, Pseudopleuronectes, Genus Microstomus, Microstomus, Genus Hippoglossoides, Hippoglossoides, Genus Hippoglossus, Hippoglossus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleuronectidae
Literary usage of Pleuronectidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"Family Pleuronectidae, Bo nap. We meet here with a curious anomaly in the general
law of symmetry, for,, in the fishes which compose the present family, ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Neurology by Denison University (1903)
"In the Pleuronectidae, on the other hand, the chiasmata are monomorphic for each
species; in dextral species the left nerve is dorsal, in sinistral species ..."
3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"The Pleuronectidae, or Flat-fish, are remarkable for their asymmetrical bodies.
... That the Pleuronectidae are admirably adapted by their flattened and ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"With the Pleuronectidae, on the other hand, the older they grow the more habitually
they rest on one side, owing to the increasing flatness of their bodies, ..."
5. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"Family Pleuronectidae, Bo nap. We meet here with a curious anomaly in the general
law of symmetry, for,, in the fishes which compose the present family, ..."
6. The Journal of Comparative Neurology by Denison University (1903)
"In the Pleuronectidae, on the other hand, the chiasmata are monomorphic for each
species; in dextral species the left nerve is dorsal, in sinistral species ..."
7. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"The Pleuronectidae, or Flat-fish, are remarkable for their asymmetrical bodies.
... That the Pleuronectidae are admirably adapted by their flattened and ..."
8. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"With the Pleuronectidae, on the other hand, the older they grow the more habitually
they rest on one side, owing to the increasing flatness of their bodies, ..."
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