Clidoderma
Genus of fishes
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Clidoderma is a genus of righteye flounders containing one extant species and two described fossil species from Japan.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Subfamily: | Hippoglossinae |
| Genus: | Clidoderma Bleeker, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Clidoderma asperrimum | |
Fossil species
Two fossil species are known from the Middle Miocene of Japan. C. chitaensis Ohe & Kawase 1995 is known from the Yamami formation of the Chita Peninsula[1] and C. yamagataensis Sakamoto, Uyeno & Otsu 2001 known from Yamagata Prefecture.[2] An indeterminate fossil species is also known from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin, Russia.[3]
Extant species
There is currently one recognized extant species in this genus:[4]
- Clidoderma asperrimum (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Roughscale sole)
