Pseudopleuronectes americanus

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• Description
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Overview

Family : Righteye flounders ; Feed predominantly in daytime on organisms living in, on or near the bottom ; shrimps, amphipods , crabs, sea urchins and snails[1].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,334 meters (0 to -17,500 feet).[2]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Platessa pusilla Dekay • Pleuronectes americanus • Pleuronectes americanus Walbaum • Pleuronectes americanus Walbaum, 1792 • Pleuronectes planus Mitchill • Pseudopleuronectes americanus • Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum) • Pseudopleuronectes dignabilis Kendall

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 09-Nov-1995

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pseudopleuronectes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. americanus (Georges Bank Flounder) · P. herzensteini (Yellow Striped Flounder) · P. obscurus (Dark Flounder) · P. schrenki (Cresthead Flounder) · P. yokohamae (Marbled Flounder)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• Amaoka, Kunio (from FishBase).
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 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 01, 2008:

• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• 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)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vacinity
• 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: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 136671
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-12375
• Fishbase Species ID: 524
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14199290
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172905
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 122400

Footnotes

1. Scarratt, D.J. (1996). Atlantic Mariculture: Flounders. Communications Branch, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Scotia-Fundy Region, Halifax, Canada. [back]
2. Mean = -104.180 meters (-341.798 feet), Standard Deviation = 369.830 based on 7,690 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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