Limanda

{{Short description|Genus of flounders}}

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| image = Limanda limanda.jpg

| image_caption = Common dab (L. limanda)

| taxon = Limanda

| authority = Gottsche, 1835

| type_species = Pleuronectes limanda

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| synonyms = *Myzopsetta Gill, 1861

}}

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

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.{{cite journal |last1=Vinnikov |first1=Kirill A. |last2=Thomson |first2=Robert C. |last3=Munroe |first3=Thomas A. |title=Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=2018 |volume=125 |pages=147–162 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.014|pmid=29535031 |doi-access=free }}

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus:{{FishBase genus | genus = Limanda| month = October | year = 2012}}

References

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Category:Pleuronectidae

Category:Marine fish genera

Category:Taxa named by Carl Moritz Gottsche

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