''Synaptura'' is a
genus
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of
soles. Most species are found in salt and
brackish water in the
Indo-Pacific and tropical East Atlantic, but ''S. salinarum'' is restricted to fresh water in Australia. The largest species in the genus reaches a length of .
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Paul Chabanaud retained the genus named ''Synaptura'' for this group and he designated ''Pleuronectes commersonnii'' as its type species. This designation is incorrect according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and ''Synaptura'' as designated by Theodore Edward Cantor is a synonym of '' Brachirus''. Due to this some workers have assigned the species previously assigned to ''Synaptura'', as raised by Chabanaud to '' Dagetichthys'', a previously monotypic genus which contained just '' Dagetichthys lakdoensis''. This more broadly defined ''Dagetichthys'' for a ]monophyletic
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria:
# the grouping contains its own most recent co ...
clade
In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...
. '' Buglossidium luteum'' seems to be the most closely related taxon to ''Dagetichthys''.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:
References
Soleidae
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by Theodore Edward Cantor
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