Hippoglossoides platessoides

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Righteye flounders ; Most abundant from 90 m to 250 m deep and bottom temperatures of -0.5 to 2.5¦C[1]. Lives on soft bottoms. Feeds on invertebrates and small fishes . Marketed fresh and frozen; eaten steamed, fried, microwaved and baked[2].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,427 meters (0 to -17,805 feet).[3]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Hippoglossoides platessoides • Hippoglossoides platessoides Fabricius 1780 • Hippoglossoides platessoides limandoides (Bloch • Hypoglossoides platessoides • Hypoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius • Hypoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) • Pleuronectes limandoides Bloch • Pleuronectes platessoides • Pleuronectes platessoides Fabricius • Pleuronectes platessoides Fabricius, 1780

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 24-Nov-1995

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hippoglossoides

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. dubius (Flathead Clingfish) · H. elassodon (Cigarette Paper) · H. exilis (Slender Sole) · H. herzensteini (Pointhead Flounder) · H. jordani (Longsnout Flounder) · H. platessoides (Canadian Plaice) · H. platessoides platessoides (American Plaice) · H. robustus (Bering Flounder)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
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• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum
• GBIF-Sweden: Swedish Board of Fisheries (Fiskeriverket) - Institute of Coastal Research
• GBIF-Sweden: Zoology (Museum of Evolution - Uppsala)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: A comparison of benthic biodiversity in the North Sea, English Channel and Celtic Seas
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: DFO Maritimes Research Vessel Trawl Surveys Fish Observations (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: ECNASAP - East Coast North America Strategic Assessment (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Electronic Atlas of Ichthyoplankton on the Scotian Shelf of North America (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Gulf of Maine Bottom Trawl Survey Data (NEFSC,NMFS,NOAA)(USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Historical hyperbenthos data (1987-2001) from the North Sea and some adjacent areas
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• UK National Biodiversity Network: Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data (Professional) held by MarLIN.
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens
• University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology: Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 128956
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-24675
• Fishbase Species ID: 4239
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172877
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCTB06020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 113120

Footnotes

1. Bowering, W.R. and W.B. Brodie (1991). Distribution of commercial flatfishes in the Newfoundland-Labrador region of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic and changes in certain biological parameters since exploitation. Neth. J. Sea Res. 27(3/4):407-422. ... [back]
2. Frimodt, C. (1995). Multilingual illustrated guide to the world's commercial coldwater fish. Fishing News Books, Osney Mead, Oxford, England. 215 p. [back]
3. Mean = 446.370 meters (1,464.469 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,070.140 based on 3,639 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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