Citharidae

The Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between 14 and 36 centimetres (5.5 and 14.2 in).^[1]

Taxa include:

• Subfamily Brachypleurinae
  • Genus Brachypleura
    • Brachypleura novaezeelandiae – yellow-dabbled flounder
  • Genus Lepidoblepharon
    • Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis – scale-eyed flounder
• Subfamily Citharinae
  • Genus Citharoides
    • Citharoides axillaris
    • Citharoides macrolepidotus – branched ray flounder
    • Citharoides macrolepis – twospot largescale flounder
    • Citharoides orbitalis
  • Genus Citharus
    • Citharus linguatula – spotted flounder

• Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Citharidae". FishBase. October 2012 version.