Misplaced Pages

Spiny turbots
Indian halibut (P. erumei)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Psettodidae Bonaparte, 1846
Genus:	Psettodes E. T. Bennett, 1831
Type species
Psettodes belcheri Bennett, 1831

The spiny turbots are a family, Psettodidae, of relatively large, primitive flatfish found in the tropical waters of the east Atlantic and Indo-Pacific. The family contains just three species, all in the same genus, Psettodes. The common name comes from the presence of spines in the dorsal and anal fins, which may indicate an evolutionary relationship with the Perciformes. They are less asymmetrical than other flatfish, although the region around the eyes is twisted. They reach lengths of 55–80 cm (22–31 in).

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

• Psettodes belcheri E. T. Bennett, 1831 (spottail spiny turbot)
• Psettodes bennetti Steindachner, 1870 (spiny turbot)
• Psettodes erumei (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Indian halibut)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Psettodidae". FishBase. November 2008 version.
2. Chapleau, Francois & Amaoka, Kunio (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 223–224. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Psettodes". FishBase. December 2012 version.

v t e Flatfish
Generally larger flatfish	Halibut True (2 species) Atlantic halibut Pacific halibut Other Arrowtooth halibut Shotted halibut Greenland halibut Spotted halibut California halibut Bastard halibut Plaice (4 species) European plaice American plaice Alaska plaice Scale-eye plaice More... Turbot True (1 species) Scophthalmus maximus More... Spiny (3 species) Psettodidae Other Diamond turbot Hornyhead turbot New Zealand turbot Ocellated turbot Spotted turbot
Generally smaller flatfish	Sole True (135 species) Common (Dover) sole Finless sole Soleichthys heterorhinos Yellow sole More... American (28 species) Achiridae More... Tongue (138 species) Bengal tongue sole Canary tonguesole Carrot tonguesole Cynoglossus suyeni Durban tonguesole Fourline tonguesole Fourlined tonguesole Ghanaian tonguesole Hooked tonguesole Largescale tonguesole Natal tongue-fish Nigerian tonguesole Ripplefin tonguesole River tonguesole Roundhead tonguesole Sand tonguefish Sharpnose tonguesole Southern tongue sole Speckled tonguesole Symphurus thermophilus Three-lined tongue sole More... Other Butter sole Curlfin sole Deepsea sole Dusky sole English sole Flathead sole Lemon sole New Zealand sole Northern rock sole Pacific sand sole Petrale sole Rex sole Rock sole Roughscale sole Slender sole Southern lemon sole Speckled sole Yellowfin sole Other flounder Lefteye (158 species) Crested flounder Flowery flounder Leopard flounder Plate fish Mediterranean scaldfish Twospot flounder Witch More... Righteye (101 species) American smooth flounder Arctic flounder Arrowtooth flounder Banded-fin flounder Barfin flounder Black flounder Blackfin flounder Bering flounder Cleisthenes herzensteini Cleisthenes pinetorum Comb flounder Cresthead flounder Derwent flounder European flounder Far Eastern smooth flounder Flathead flounder Greenback flounder Hypsopsetta macrocephala Indonesian ocellated flounder Kamchatka flounder Large-scale righteye flounder Marbled flounder Marleyella maldivensis Microstomus shuntovi Narrow-body righteye flounder New Zealand flounder Peltorhamphus tenuis Peppered flounder Pseudopleuronectes obscurus Remo flounder Ridged-eye flounder Sakhalin sole Slime flounder Small-mouth righteye flounder Speckled flounder Starry flounder Stone flounder Willowy flounder Winter flounder Witch (righteye) Yellow striped flounder Yellowbelly flounder Yellowtail flounder More... Large tooth (115 species) Anglefin whiff Bigmouth sanddab California halibut Cephalopsetta ventrocellatus Fine flounder Five-eyed flounder Five-rayed sanddab Fourspot flounder Gray flounder Gulf sanddab Horned whiff Longfin sanddab Mimic sanddab Olive flounder Pacific sanddab Peacock flounder Sand whiff Shrimp flounder Small sanddab Speckled sanddab Spotfin flounder Three-eye flounder Thysanopsetta naresi Veracruz whiff More... Southern (6 species) Antarctic armless flounder Armless flounder Finless flounder Paralichthys lethostigma Southern flounder More... Other Citharidae Samaridae Misc Common dab Chinese brill Deepwater dab Longhead dab New Zealand brill Scale-eye plaice Fluke
Related	Demersal fish Transitional fossils Amphistium Heteronectes As food Sole meunière Turbot War
Predator billfish bonito mackerel salmon shark tuna Forage anchovy herring menhaden sardine shad sprat Demersal cod flatfish pollock ray

This Pleuronectoidei-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Pleuronectoidei
• Taxa named by Edward Turner Bennett
• Pleuronectoidei stubs