The plaice or plash fleuk (Pleuronectes platessa) is a commercially important flatfish.[3]

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Plaice
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Actinopterygii
Order: Pleuronectiformes
Faimily: Pleuronectidae
Genus: Pleuronectes
Species: P. platessa
Binomial name
Pleuronectes platessa
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[2]
  • Platessa latus Cuvier, 1829
  • Platessa platessa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Platessa vulgaris Cloquet, 1826
  • Pleuronectes borealis Faber, 1828
  • Pleuronectes latus Cuvier, 1829
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