Glyptocephalus

Glyptocephalus is a genus of righteye flounders found in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans

Glyptocephalus
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Subfamily:	Microstominae
Genus:	Glyptocephalus Gottsche, 1835
Type species
Pleuronectes saxicola Faber, 1828
Synonyms
Tanakius Hubbs 1918

Etymology

The word Glytocephalus is derived from the Greek γλύφειν (glyphein), meaning "to carve", and κεφαλή (kephalē), meaning "head".

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:^[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758)	witch, witch flounder, pole flounder, craig fluke, Torbay sole and grey sole	northern Atlantic Ocean
	Glyptocephalus kitaharae (Jordan & Starks, 1904)	Willowy flounder	northwest Pacific Ocean: Yellow Sea, Gulf of Bo Hai, East China Sea (Hokkaido, Taiwan, Japan)
	Glyptocephalus stelleri (P. J. Schmidt, 1904)	Blackfin flounder	northern Pacific, from the Sea of Japan to the Strait of Tartary and southern Kuril Islands and out into the Bering Sea.
	Glyptocephalus zachirus Lockington, 1879	Rex sole	northern Pacific, from Baja California in Mexico up the coasts of the United States, British Columbia and Alaska, across the Bering Sea to the coast of Russia and the Sea of Japan.