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Scaldfish
	Arnoglossus laterna
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Bothidae
Genus:	Arnoglossus; Bleeker, 1862
Type species
	Pleuronectes arnoglossus; Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Synonyms
	Anticitharus Günther, 1880; Caulopsetta Gill, 1893; Charybdia Facciolà, 1885; Kyleia Chabanaud, 1931;

The scaldfishes comprise a genus, Arnoglossus, of lefteye flounders. They are found in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea. They are entirely absent from most of the Americas; the only exceptions are A. coeruleosticta and A. multirastris found off Chile. The genus include both species found in shallow and deeper water. The largest species reaches 28 cm (11 in).^[2]

Species

The 37 currently recognized species are:^[2]

Arnoglossus andrewsi Kurth, 1954
Arnoglossus arabicus Norman, 1939 (Arabian flounder)
Arnoglossus armstrongi E. O. G. Scott, 1975
Arnoglossus aspilos (Bleeker, 1851) (spotless lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus bassensis Norman, 1926 (Bass Strait flounder)
Arnoglossus boops (Hector, 1875)
Arnoglossus brunneus (Fowler, 1934) (brown lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus capensis Boulenger, 1898 (Cape scaldfish)
Arnoglossus coeruleosticta (Steindachner, 1898)
Arnoglossus dalgleishi (von Bonde, 1922) (east coast flounder)
Arnoglossus debilis (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (weak lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus elongatus M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (long lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus fisoni J. D. Ogilby, 1898 (Fison's lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus grohmanni (Bonaparte, 1837)
Arnoglossus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810) (imperial scaldfish)
Arnoglossus japonicus C. L. Hubbs, 1915 (Japanese lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus kessleri P. J. Schmidt, 1915 (scaldback)
Arnoglossus kotthausi Klausewitz & Schneider, 1986
Arnoglossus laterna (Walbaum, 1792) (Mediterranean scaldfish)
Arnoglossus macrolophus Alcock, 1889 (large-crested lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus marisrubri Klausewitz & M. Schneider, 1986
Arnoglossus micrommatus Amaoka, M. Arai & M. F. Gomon, 1997
Arnoglossus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1872) (Müller's flounder)
Arnoglossus multirastris Parin, 1983
Arnoglossus nigrifrons Amaoka & Mihara, 2000
Arnoglossus nigrofilamentosus Fricke, Golani & Appelbaum-Golani, 2017 (Filamentous flounder)
Arnoglossus oxyrhynchus Amaoka, 1969 (sharp-snout lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus polyspilus (Günther, 1880) (many-spotted lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus rueppelii (Cocco, 1844) (Rüppell's scaldback)
Arnoglossus sayaensis Amaoka & Imamura, 1990
Arnoglossus scapha (J. R. Forster, 1801)
Arnoglossus septemventralis Amaoka & Mihara, 2000
Arnoglossus tapeinosoma (Bleeker, 1865) (drab flounder)
Arnoglossus tenuis Günther, 1880 (dwarf lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus thori Kyle, 1913 (Thor's scaldfish)
Arnoglossus waitei Norman, 1926 (Waite's lefteye flounder)
Arnoglossus yamanakai Fukui, Yamada & Ozawa, 1988

References

^ Nicola Bailly (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Arnoglossus Bleeker, 1862". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Arnoglossus". FishBase. March 2024 version. in length.

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[WoRMS-1] Nicola Bailly (2014). Bailly N (ed.). "Arnoglossus Bleeker, 1862". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

[fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Arnoglossus". FishBase. March 2024 version. in length.

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Scaldfish

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