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  • Taxa named by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
  • Taxa named by Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort
  • Fish described in 1929
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    Pseudorhombus quinquocellatus

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    Pseudorhombus quinquocellatus
    Scientific classification Edit this classification
    Domain: Eukaryota
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Actinopterygii
    Order: Pleuronectiformes
    Family: Paralichthyidae
    Genus: Pseudorhombus
    Species:
    P. quinquocellatus
    Binomial name
    Pseudorhombus quinquocellatus
    M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1929

    Pseudorhombus quinquocellatus, the five-eyed flounder, is a species of flatfish in the large-tooth flounder family, Paralichthyidae. It is a demersal fish that lives in tropical waters, inhabiting deep waters on the continental shelf of the western Pacific Ocean, from Taiwan in the north to Australia in the south.

    Like the rest of the large-tooth flounders, it has both eyes on the left side of its head. It grows to around 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length. It is brownish in colour, with five dark rings on its ocular side, as suggested by its common name.

    References

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    • Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pseudorhombus quinquocellatus". FishBase. September 2009 version.
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