Citharidae

The Citharidae or largescale flounders are a small family of flounders with four genera. Three genera are restricted to the Indo-Pacific, while Citharus is from the Mediterranean and East Atlantic (off northwest Africa). There are a total of seven species. Species reach lengths ranging between .

Taxa include: Subfamily Brachypleurinae Genus Brachypleura Brachypleura novaezeelandiae – yellow-dabbled flounder Genus Lepidoblepharon Lepidoblepharon ophthalmolepis – scale-eyed flounder Subfamily Citharinae Genus Citharoides Citharoides axillaris Citharoides macrolepidotus – branched ray flounder Citharoides macrolepis – twospot largescale flounder Citharoides orbitalis Genus Citharus Citharus linguatula – spotted flounder The extinct genus †Rhombocitharus Schwarzhans, 1994 is known from fossil otoliths from the early-mid Eocene of Denmark, the Oligocene of Germany, and the Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand.