Clidoderma is a genusofrighteye flounders containing one extant species and two described fossil species from Japan.
| Clidoderma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Subfamily: | Pleuronectinae |
| Genus: | Clidoderma Bleeker, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Clidoderma asperrimum | |
Two fossil species are known from the Miocene of Japan. C. chitaensis Ohe & Kawase 1995 is known from the Yamami formation of the Chita Peninsula[1] and C. yamagataensis Sakamoto, Uyeno & Otsu 2001 known from Yamagata Prefecture.[2]
There is currently one recognized extant species in this genus:[3]
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