European plaice [SEP] parent taxon
European plaice
The European plaice ("Pleuronectes platessa") is a commercially important flatfish.
Distribution and habitat.
The geographical range of the European plaice is off all coasts from the Barents Sea to the Mediterranean, also in the Northeast Atlantic and off Greenland. In some locales such as the Irish Sea, this species is considered fully exploited by commercial fishing.
It is a common flatfish, occurring on the sandy and muddy bottoms of the European shelf, usually at depths between 10 and 50 m, where
Plaice
Plaice is a common name for a group of flatfish that comprises four species: the European, American, Alaskan and scale-eye plaice.
Commercially, the most important plaice is the European. The principal commercial flatfish in Europe, it is also widely fished recreationally, has potential as an aquaculture species, and is kept as an aquarium fish. Also commercially important is the American plaice.
The term "plaice" (plural "plaice") comes from the 14th-century Anglo-French "plais