Explore: Pleuronectidae

Pleuronectidae, also known as righteye flounders, are a family of flounders. They are called "righteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom

on the underlying surface. Hybrids are well known in flatfishes. The Pleuronectidae have the largest number of reported hybrids of marine fishes. Two of

species of marine flatfish in the genus Pleuronectes of the family Pleuronectidae. The European plaice is characterized, on their dorsal side, by their

unknown but may be related to a change in diet. Of the same family (Pleuronectidae) as proper halibut Kamchatka flounder, Atheresthes evermanni – sometimes

in the suborder Pleuronectoidei (families Achiropsettidae, Bothidae, Pleuronectidae, Paralichthyidae, and Samaridae). Some of the better known species that

the word 'tongue'. Several species of righteye flounder in the family Pleuronectidae, including the lemon sole, the Pacific Dover sole, and the petrale sole

Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. They are demersal fish living on or near sand, gravel or clay bottoms

(Pleuronectes platessa) is a right-eyed flounder belonging to the family Pleuronectidae. It is a commercially important flatfish that lives on the sandy bottoms

The lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is native to shallow seas around Northern Europe, where it lives on stony

also known as the rusty dab, is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae (righteye flounders). Reaching 56 cm (22 in) in length, it has reddish