Definition of Family Pleuronectidae

1. Noun. Righteye flounders.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pleuronectidae

family Pinaceae
family Pinnotheridae
family Piperaceae
family Pipidae
family Pipridae
family Pittidae
family Plantaginaceae
family Plasmodiidae
family Plasmodiophoraceae
family Plataleidae
family Platanaceae
family Platanistidae
family Platycephalidae
family Plethodontidae
family Pleurobrachiidae
family Pleuronectidae (current term)
family Ploceidae
family Plumbaginaceae
family Pluteaceae
family Poaceae
family Podargidae
family Podicipedidae
family Podocarpaceae
family Poeciliidae
family Polemoniaceae
family Polyangiaceae
family Polygalaceae
family Polygonaceae
family Polynemidae
family Polyodontidae

Literary usage of Family Pleuronectidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"The least specialised of the family Pleuronectidae is the ... not come over completely on to the pigmented Flat- The fishes of the family Pleuronectidae, ..."

2. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1913)
"... Urophycis regius 6 months White Hake, Urophycis tennis 6 months Squirrel Hake, Urophycis chuss 6 month* Family PLEURONECTIDAE (Flounders). ..."

3. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"The Flounder Family. Pleuronectidae. THE HALIBUT. (Hippoglossus vulgar is, Flem.) THE halibut is the largest of the flounder-tribe, and in its adult ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"Tn normal specimens of the majority of the Flat Fishes, ie, of the family Pleuronectidae, the upper side is pigmented, the lower side opaque white, ..."

5. Report and Transactions (1892)
"The family Pleuronectidae is as important to our sea- fisheries as that of the Clupeidae, and I will just touch upon a few of the points which have recently ..."

6. New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism by Thomas Morton (1999)
"... 285 Plaice likely the Flounder: a well-known European and American flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae 286 Hake English term from the Norwegian ..."

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