Science, Creation & EvolutionFlatfishesI'd be happy to. Here's a link to a site that has attempted to categorise the entire animal kingdom: http://www.itis.usda.gov/itis_phy.html If you search for 'Animalia' (animals), you will be presented with a huge list of genera (species). In this list you can find 'pleuronectiformes', more comonly known as flatfishes. Here is some more specific information: Kingdom: Animalia (Animals) -Phylum: Chordata --Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates) ---Superclass: Osteichthyes (bony fishes) ----Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) -----Subclass: Neopterygii ------Infraclass: Teleostei -------Superorder: Acanthopterygii --------Order: Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes, flounders) -----------------------Direct Children: -----------------------------Suborder Pleuronectoidei -----------------------------Suborder Psettodoidei This website shows the taxonomy scientists use to categorise animals. You can see that the flatfishes take up their place amongst 'regular' fish. 520 different species of flatfish are knows. All but three live in the salt water.* That's the requested data. * Longman Group Limited, 1984. Longman Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia. London: Marshall Editions Limited, page 576. |
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