Platichthys

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Pleuronectiformes
Subordo: Pleuronectoidei

Familia: Pleuronectidae
Genus: Platichthys
Species: P. flesus – P. solemdali – P. stellatus

Name

Platichthys Girard, 1854
Vernacular names
English: starry flounders

Platichthys is a genus of flatfish native to the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans. Despite being in the family Pleuronectidae (popularly known as righteye flounders), all four species in the genus Platichthys are often "lefteyed", i.e. they lie on the sea bottom on their right side, with both eyes on the left side.[1][2]
Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[3][4]
Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Platichthys bicoloratus (Basilewsky, 1855) Stone flounder Northwest Pacific from the East China Sea and the coastal waters of southern Japan
Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758) European flounder European coastal waters from the White Sea in the north to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the south
Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1788) Starry flounder North Pacific from the Yellow Sea along the Korean peninsula, Russian Far East, and the Japanese archipelago to the Arctic, extending south through the Bering Sea to California
Platichthys solemdali Momigliano, Denys, Jokinen and Merilä, 2018 Baltic flounder the Baltic Sea
References

Eschmeyer W.N.; Herald, E.S.; and Hammann, H. (1983). A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes. Peterson Field Guides. ISBN 978-0618002122
Muus, B.J; Nielsen, J.G.; Dahlstrøm, P.; Nyström, B.O. (1991). Sea Fish. ISBN 978-8790787004
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2024). Species of Platichthys in FishBase. April 2024 version.

Merilä, Juha; Jokinen, Henri; Denys, Gaël P. J.; Momigliano, Paolo (2018). "Platichthys solemdali sp. nov. (Actinopterygii, Pleuronectiformes): A New Flounder Species From the Baltic Sea". Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00225. ISSN 2296-7745.