“…Recent work on the larvae of the Pleuronectiformes has dealt mainly with P. olivaceus and has been undertaken in China and Japan (TANAKA et al, 2005;SAKAKURA, 2006;ISHIBASHI et al, 2007;SEIKAI, 2008aSEIKAI, , 2008bTOMIYAMA et al, 2008). In Brazil studies have focused more on transport (ARAÚJO-LIMA; OLIVEIRA, 1998), reproductive aspects (SAMPAIO et al, 2007) and aquiculture (LANES et al, 2008).…”