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Pleuronectoidei 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 172707

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Suborder  
  Synonym(s): Soleoidei
 
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2015   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderPleuronectiformes  – flatfishes, flounders, soles, limandes, plies, poissons plats  
                               SuborderPleuronectoidei   
    Direct Children:  
                                  FamilyAchiridae  – American soles, lenguados suelas, soles américaines, scrawled soles 
                                  FamilyAchiropsettidae  – southern flounders, armless flounders 
                                  FamilyBothidae  – lefteyed flounders, lefteye flounders, lenguados chuecos, turbots 
                                  FamilyCitharidae  – lyre flatfishes, cithartids 
                                  FamilyCynoglossidae  – tongue soles, tonguefishes, lenguas, soles-langues 
                                  FamilyParalichthodidae   
                                  FamilyParalichthyidae  – flétans de sable, lenguados areneros, sand flounders, lefteye flounders 
                                  FamilyPleuronectidae  – halibuts, dabs, righteyed flounders, platijas, plies, righteye flounders 
                                  FamilyPoecilopsettidae  – bigeye flounders, lenguados ojones, plies à grands yeux 
                                  FamilyRhombosoleidae   
                                  FamilySamaridae   
                                  FamilyScophthalmidae  – turbots, rodaballos, scophthalmidés, scophthalmids 
                                  FamilySoleidae  – soles, soles, suelas soles 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Thomas A. Munroe   
  Notes: Systematic Zoologist, National Marine Fisheries Service; Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Pleuronectoidei    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleuronectoidei   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Betancur-R., Ricardo, Chenhong Li, Thomas A. Munroe, Jesus A. Ballesteros, and Guillermo Ortí   
  Publication Date: 2013   
  Article/Chapter Title: Addressing gene-tree discordance and non-stationarity to resolve a multi-locus phylogeny of the flatfishes (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematic Biology, vol. 62, no. 5   
  Page(s): 763-785   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 1063-5157   
  Notes: doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syt039   
  Reference for: Pleuronectoidei   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Chapleau, François   
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title: Pleuronectiform relationships: a cladistic reassessment   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of Marine Science, vol. 52, no. 1   
  Page(s): 516-540   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0007-4977   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleuronectoidei   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.   
  Publication Date: 1994   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Pleuronectoidei   
       

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