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GBIF·2409016speciesAnimalia141 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPleuronectiformes
  4. ›familyCitharidae
  5. ›genusLepidoblepharon
Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Scale-eyed Flounder

Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis Weber, 1913

Also calledUrokogarei (jpn) · Арафурская цитара (rus) · ウロコガレイ (jpn) · 半邊魚 (zho) · 扁魚 (zho) · 比目魚 (zho) · 皇帝魚 (zho) · 鱗眼鮃 (zho)

First described in: Weber, M. (1913). Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition. <em>E. J. Brill, Leiden.</em> i-xii + 1-710, Pls. 1-12.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2409016.