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

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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]

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Species

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

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

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