CaRMS taxon details
Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792) AphiaID: 158885
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Pseudopleuronectes Bleeker, 1862 |
| Sources | |
basis of record: Scott, W.B., and S.N. Messieh. 1976. Common Canadian Atlantic fishes. Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, N.B. 106 p. [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]
context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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Vernacular
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
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| Host of | |
Acanthochondria cornuta (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus hidekoi Ho, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Chondracanthus cornutus (Müller O.F., 1776) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (234 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (1742 nucleotides; 182 proteins)
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: Feeds on shrimps, amphipods, crabs, sea urchins and snails [details]
Distribution: Labrador to Georgia, abundant only in the central part of its range [details]
Habitat: An inshore species, found to depths of 5 m, migrate offshore in winter and return inshore by summer. [details]
Habitat: benthic [details]
Importance: Social- Commercial, experimental aquaculture, gamefish [details]
Predators: Atlantic cod, American angler, little skate, striped sea robin [details]
Reproduction: Spawns in late winter or early spring in Canadian waters, occurs over sand or mud bottoms [details]
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| Images | | 
Pair of flounders (plie rouge, plie lisse)
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Pseudopleuronectes americanus, winter flounder -head view
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Pseudopleuronectes americanus
added on 2011-05-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Jean-François St-Pierre ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158885 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158885 on 2013-05-21 |
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