Citharidae

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]

Citharidae Temporal range: Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Citharoides macrolepis
Scientific 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

Taxa include:

• Subfamily Brachypleurinae
  • Genus Brachypleura
    • Brachypleura novaezeelandiae – yellow-dabbled flounder
  • Genus Lepidoblepharon
    • Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis – scale-eyed flounder
• Subfamily Citharinae
  • Genus Citharoides
    • Citharoides axillaris
    • Citharoides macrolepidotus – branched ray flounder
    • Citharoides macrolepis – twospot largescale flounder
    • Citharoides orbitalis
  • Genus Citharus
    • Citharus linguatula – spotted flounder

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]