Poecilopsetta
Poecilopsetta plinthus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Family:	Poecilopsettidae
Genus:	Poecilopsetta Günther, 1880
Type species
Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880

Poecilopsetta is a genus of small righteye flounders mainly found in deep water in the Indo-Pacific. Two species, P. beanii and P. inermis, are from the West Atlantic.^[1]

The currently recognized species in this genus are:^[1]

• Poecilopsetta albomaculata Norman, 1939
• Poecilopsetta beanii (Goode, 1881) (deepwater dab)
• Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880 (colored righteye flounder)
• Poecilopsetta dorsialta Guibord & Chapleau, 2001
• Poecilopsetta hawaiiensis C. H. Gilbert, 1905
• Poecilopsetta inermis (Breder, 1927)
• Poecilopsetta macrocephala Hoshino, Amaoka & Last, 2001
• Poecilopsetta multiradiata Kawai, Amaoka & Séret, 2010
• Poecilopsetta natalensis Norman, 1931 (African righteye flounder)
• Poecilopsetta normani Foroshchuk & Fedorov, 1992
• Poecilopsetta pectoralis Kawai & Amaoka, 2006
• Poecilopsetta plinthus (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904) (tile-colored righteye flounder)
• Poecilopsetta praelonga Alcock, 1894 (Alcock's narrow-body righteye flounder)
• Poecilopsetta vaynei Quéro, Hensley & Maugé, 1988
• Poecilopsetta zanzibarensis Norman, 1939

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