''Monolene'' is a
genus
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of small, mainly deepwater
lefteye flounder
Bothidae or lefteye flounders are a family of flounders. They are called "lefteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their right sides, with both eyes on their left sides. The family is also distinguished by the presence of ...
s from the Atlantic and East Pacific.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
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
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, 1959) (Marten's moonflounder)
* ''
Monolene microstoma''
Cadenat, 1937 (smallmouth moonflounder)
* ''
Monolene sessilicauda''
Goode, 1880 (deepwater flounder)
References
Bothidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by George Brown Goode
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