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Dabs
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Dabs

Limanda

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.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Sand Dab

speciesLimanda limanda

Yellowfin Sole

speciesLimanda aspera

Sakhalin Sole

speciesLimanda sakhalinensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56046.