Crested flounder
Appearance
(Redirected from Lophonectes gallus)
Crested flounder | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
Family: | Bothidae |
Genus: | Lophonectes |
Species: | L. gallus
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Binomial name | |
Lophonectes gallus Günther, 1880
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The crested flounder, Lophonectes gallus, is a lefteye flounder of the genus Lophonectes, found around south eastern Australia, and New Zealand in waters less than 240 m in depth. Their length is from 10 to 20 cm.
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Lophonectes gallus" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8