Clidoderma

Clidoderma is a genus of righteye flounders containing one extant species and two described fossil species from Japan.

Clidoderma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Subfamily:	Hippoglossinae
Genus:	Clidoderma Bleeker, 1862
Type species
Clidoderma asperrimum Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Fossil species

Two fossil species are known from the Miocene of Japan. C. chitaensis Ohe & Kawase 1995 is known from the Yamami formation of the Chita Peninsula^[1] and C. yamagataensis Sakamoto, Uyeno & Otsu 2001 known from Yamagata Prefecture.^[2]

Extant species

There is currently one recognized extant species in this genus:^[3]

• Clidoderma asperrimum (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Roughscale sole)

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish