Limanda

Limanda is a genus of righteye flounders native to the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Limanda Temporal range: Middle Miocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Common dab (L. limanda)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Pleuronectidae
Subfamily:	Pleuronectinae
Genus:	Limanda Gottsche, 1835
Type species
Pleuronectes limanda Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Myzopsetta Gill, 1861

A 2018 cladistic morphological and genetic analysis found that the genus is not monophyletic, and has proposed L. ferruginea, L. proboscidea and L. punctatissima be placed in the genus Myzopsetta.^[1]

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Limanda aspera (Pallas, 1814) (Yellowfin sole)
• Limanda ferruginea (D. H. Storer (fr), 1839) (Yellowtail flounder)
• Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758) (Common dab)
• Limanda proboscidea C. H. Gilbert, 1896 (Longhead dab)
• Limanda punctatissima (Steindachner, 1879) (Speckled flounder)
• Limanda sakhalinensis C. L. Hubbs, 1915 (Sakhalin sole)

A single fossil species, †Limanda asperoides (Nazarkin, 1997) (originally described in Pleuronectes) is also known from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin, Russia.^[3][4]