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Taxon: Family Pleuronectidae Rafinesque, 1815 - righteye flounders (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C.S. Rafinesque, 1815, orth. corr.
Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 14 ("Ordine. I Pleronetti."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 83 ("Famille. Pleuronectia."). ≡
Subsequent spelling: 
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 131 ("Rafinesque 1815").

Attributes

Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 131. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Pleuronectinae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 447. [inferred]
Type: Pleuronectes (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: N. Bailly et al. (comps.), 2001: 374; 7 Feb 2021. [inferred]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: schollen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: righteye flounders Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 399; ECoF(4 Feb 2025).
: righteye flounders Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2492.
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