Pleuronectidae

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.