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Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) 
AphiaID: 127137

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Pleuronectidae (Family) > Pleuronectinae (Subfamily) > Hippoglossoides (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hippoglossoides Gottsche, 1835
Synonymised
taxa
  Drepanopsetta platessoides (synonym)
Hippoglossoides limanda Gottsche, 1835 (synonym)
Hippoglossoides platessoides limandoides (Bloch, 1787)
Hypoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780) (misspelling)
Pleuronectes limandoides Bloch, 1787
Pleuronectes platessoides Fabricius, 1780 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica: systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quod nomen specificium. Hafniae et Lipsiae: Copenhagen, Denmark. XVI, 452, [2] f. pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 164 [details] [full text]


from synonym: Gottsche, C.M. (1835). Die seeländischen Pleuronectes-Arten. Arch. Naturgeschichte v. 2, pp 133-185. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Nijssen, H.; de Groot, S.J. (1987). De vissen van Nederland: systematische indeling, historisch overzicht, het ontstaan van de viskweek, uitheemse vissoorten, determineersleutels, beschrijvingen, afbeeldingen, literatuur, van alle in Nederlandse wateren voor komende zee- en zoetwatervissoorten [Fishes of the Netherlands: systematic classification, historical overview, origins of fish culture, non-indigenous species, determination keys, descriptions, drawings, literature references on all marine and freshwater fish species living in Dutch waters]. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-006-1. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish håising  [details]
Dutch lange schar  [details]
English American plaice  [details]
English Canadian plaice  [details]
English long rough dab  [details]
English sand-dab  [details]
Finnish liejukampela  [details]
French balai  [details]
French fausse sole  [details]
French flétan nain  [details]
French plie canadienne  [details]
French sole d'Écosse  [details]
German Doggerscharbe  [details]
German rauhe Scharbe  [details]
Icelandic skrápflúra  [details]
Norwegian gapeflyndre  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål gapeflyndre  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk gapeflyndre  [details]
Polish niegladzica  [details]
Russian kambala-ërsh  [details]
Swedish lerskädda  [details]
Welsh lleden gennog  [details]
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taxa

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Subspecies Hippoglossoides platessoides limandoides (Bloch, 1787) accepted as Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Host of  Acanthochondria cornuta (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeocera lusci (Bassett-Smith, 1896) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Acanthochondria flurae (Krøyer, 1863) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (46 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (154 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on invertebrates and small fishes [details]

Distribution: Southern Labrador and Western Greenland to Rhode Island [details]

Habitat: Found on soft bottoms at depths of 10- 400 m. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Importance: Social- Highly commercial [details]

Predators: American angler, Atlantic halibut [details]

Reproduction: Spawns from spring until early summer, eggs are pelagic [details]
Images 
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780)
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780)
added on 2006-08-21 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780)
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780)
added on 2006-08-21 - author: RIVO/Henk Heessen/2005
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Gilson (1921, fig. 80)
Gilson (1921, fig. 80)
added on 2008-06-12 - author: Anoniem in Gilson, G. (1921)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Poll (1947, fig. 247)
Poll (1947, fig. 247)
added on 2008-08-13 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Day)
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Hippoglossoides platessoides
Hippoglossoides platessoides
added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Hippoglossoides platessoides - American plaice (juvenile)
Hippoglossoides platessoides - American plaice (juvenile)
added on 2011-02-15 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Hippoglossoides platessoides
Hippoglossoides platessoides
added on 2011-03-29 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Heinz Wiele ()
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Hippoglossoides platessoides
Hippoglossoides platessoides
added on 2011-03-29 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Heinz Wiele ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127137
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127137 on 2013-05-23
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