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European Plaice

Pleuronectes platessa

Classification

The European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), commonly referred to as simply plaice, or schol in Dutch, is a species of marine flatfish in the genus Pleuronectes of the family Pleuronectidae. Description The European plaice is characterized, on their dorsal side, by their dark green to dark brown skin, blotched with conspicuous, but irregularly distributed, orange spots. The ventral side is pearly white.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Belgium · 10,072United Kingdom · 1,615Netherlands · 1,461France · 208Germany · 175Spain · 1