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. 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.