Species
Platichthys stellatus (Starry flounder)
Platichthys stellatus. Photo: (c) Katherine Stonecypher, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) is a common flatfish found around the margins of the North Pacific.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
- Order: Carangiformes (Barracudas, jacks, remoras, flounders, billfishes, and allies)
- Suborder: Pleuronectoidei (Flatfishes)
- Family: Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders)
- Subfamily: Pleuronectinae
- Genus: Platichthys
- Species: Platichthys stellatus (Starry flounder)
- Genus: Platichthys
- Subfamily: Pleuronectinae
- Family: Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders)
- Suborder: Pleuronectoidei (Flatfishes)
- Order: Carangiformes (Barracudas, jacks, remoras, flounders, billfishes, and allies)
- Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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