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Monolene
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| Monolene | |
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| M. atrimana | |
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| Deepwater flounder (M. sessilicauda) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
| Family: | Monolenidae Tongboonkua, Chanet & Chen, 2025 |
| Genus: | Monolene Goode, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Monolene sessilicauda Goode, 1880
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Monolene, the deepwater lefteye flounders, is a genus of small, mainly deepwater flatfish from the Atlantic and East Pacific.
Their eyes are located on the left side of their body, and thus they have long been placed in the "lefteye flounder" family, Bothidae. However, more recent studies have split up the family into multiple families, with Monolene being identified as the sister group to the family Taeniopsettidae (formerly the subfamily Taeniopsettinae). For this reason, it was placed its own family, Monolenidae, in 2025.[1][2]
Species
[edit]The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Monolene antillarum Norman, 1933 (slim flounder)
- Monolene asaedai H. W. Clark, 1936 (Asaedae flounder)
- Monolene atrimana Goode & T. H. Bean, 1886 (longfinned deepwater flounder)
- Monolene danae Bruun, 1937
- Monolene dubiosa Garman, 1899 (Acapulco flounder)
- Monolene helenensis Amaoka & Imamura, 2000
- Monolene maculipinna Garman, 1899 (Pacific deepwater flounder)
- Monolene megalepis Woods, 1961
- Monolene mertensi (Poll, 1959) (Marten's moonflounder)
- Monolene microstoma Cadenat, 1937 (smallmouth moonflounder)
- Monolene sessilicauda Goode, 1880 (deepwater flounder)
References
[edit]- ^ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
- ^ Tongboonkua, Pakorn; Chanet, Bruno; Chen, Wei-Jen (2025). "Integrated Molecular and Morphological Analyses Resolve Long-Standing Classification Challenges in the Sinistral Flatfish Family Bothidae (Teleostei: Carangiformes)". Zoologica Scripta. n/a (n/a) zsc.70020. doi:10.1111/zsc.70020. ISSN 1463-6409.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Monolene". FishBase. October 2012 version.
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