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Genus of fishes

Austroglossus

West Coast Sole (A. microlepis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Pleuronectoidei
Family:	Soleidae
Genus:	Austroglossus Regan, 1920
Type species
Synaptura pectoralis Kaup, 1858

Austroglossus is a genus of soles native to the Atlantic coast of southern Africa.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:

Austroglossus microlepis (Bleeker, 1863) (West coast sole)
Austroglossus pectoralis (Kaup, 1858) (Mud sole)

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Austroglossus". FishBase. December 2012 version.

Taxon identifiers
Austroglossus	Wikidata: Q781657 BOLD: 86873 CoL: 62DMN GBIF: 2410028 iNaturalist: 86779 IRMNG: 1201772 ITIS: 173038 NCBI: 526615 Open Tree of Life: 479108 Plazi: 6D4CCBF8-EB77-D173-9400-D3BC0BD9DF2B WoRMS: 205867 ZooBank: 4451BF8E-75BF-4EB4-9D86-12BA632D3FF5

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