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Pleuronectes
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Pleuronectes

Pleuronectes is a genus of righteye flounders found in the northern oceans.

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

European Plaice

speciesPleuronectes platessa

Alaska Plaice

speciesPleuronectes quadrituberculatus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47524.