sand-dab

Hippoglossoides platessoides

Pleuronectid Fish from Western Atlantic

Temperate
Circumpolar Arctic
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Polar regions
Deep-bodied
Large
Temperate fish

The American plaice, American sole or long rough dab (Hippoglossoides platessoides) is a North Atlantic flatfish that belongs, along with other right-eyed flounders, to the family Pleuronectidae. In the northwest Atlantic (H. p. platessoides) it ranges from Greenland and Labrador to Rhode Island, and in the northeast Atlantic (H. p.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Flatfishes
Family: Pleuronectidae
Genus: Hippoglossoides
Maximum length: 82.6 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Two subspecies were recognized, H. p. platessoides from northwestern Atlantic, and H. p. limandoides from the northeastern Atlantic (Ref. 51668 ).

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