PLEURONECTIFORMES

Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, Zootaxa 2667, pp. 1-27 : 23-24

ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES

Family Citharidae

Citharus linguatula (Linnaeus, 1758) — Atlantic spotted flounder Fifteen specimens ranging between 6 and 10 cm TL caught at 130–160 m depth during several “Demersales” surveys.

Family Scophthalmidae

* Scophthalmus rhombus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Brill

*Psetta maxima (Linnaeus, 1758) — Turbot

* Zeugopterus punctatus (Bloch, 1787) — Topknot

* Zeugopterus regius (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Eckström's topknot

* Phrynorhombus norvegicus (Günther, 1862) — Norwegian topknot Not recorded from Galicia neither by Nielsen in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). However it is recorded by Iglesias (1981) and posteriorly by Bañón et al. (2008b) ( Figure 16), confirming its presence in Galician waters and extending to the south its known distribution range.

Lepidorhombus boscii (Risso, 1810) — Fourspotted megrim

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (Walbaum, 1792) — Megrim

Family Bothidae

* Arnoglossus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810) — Imperial scald fish * Arnoglossus thori Kyle, 1913 — Thor's scaldfish * Arnoglossus laterna (Walbaum, 1792) — Scald fish

Family Pleuronectidae

Microstomus kitt (Walbaum, 1792) — Lemon sole

Two specimens of 43 cm TL caught at 96 and 96.5 m depth during the surveys “Demersales 95” and “Demersales 96” respectively.

* Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Flounder

* Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758 — European plaice Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Witch

Family Soleidae

Microchirus azevia (de Brito Capello, 1867) — Bastard sole

* Microchirus variegatus (Donovan, 1808) — Thickback sole

Monochirus hispidus Rafinesque, 1814 — Whiskered sole Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species.

* Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758) — Sole

Solea senegalensis Kaup, 1858 — Senegalese sole

* Pegusa lascaris (Risso, 1810) — Sand sole

* Bathysolea profundicola (Vaillant, 1888) — Deepwater sole

Dicologlossa cuneata (Moreau, 1881) — Wedge sole

* Buglossidium luteum (Risso, 1810) — Solenette

Family Cynoglossidae

Symphurus nigrescens Rafinesque, 1810 — Tonguesole