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Definition of Family 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 Family Pleuronectidae
Literary usage of Family Pleuronectidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"The least specialised of the family Pleuronectidae is the ... not come over
completely on to the pigmented Flat- The fishes of the family Pleuronectidae, ..."
2. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1913)
"... Urophycis regius 6 months White Hake, Urophycis tennis 6 months Squirrel Hake,
Urophycis chuss 6 month* Family PLEURONECTIDAE (Flounders). ..."
3. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"The Flounder Family. Pleuronectidae. THE HALIBUT. (Hippoglossus vulgar is, Flem.)
THE halibut is the largest of the flounder-tribe, and in its adult ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"Tn normal specimens of the majority of the Flat Fishes, ie, of the family
Pleuronectidae, the upper side is pigmented, the lower side opaque white, ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1892)
"The family Pleuronectidae is as important to our sea- fisheries as that of the
Clupeidae, and I will just touch upon a few of the points which have recently ..."
6. New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism by Thomas Morton (1999)
"... 285 Plaice likely the Flounder: a well-known European and American flatfish
of the family Pleuronectidae 286 Hake English term from the Norwegian ..."
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