pleuronectes, genus, righteye, flounders, found, northern, oceans, european, plaice, platessa, scientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom, animaliaphylum, chordataclass, actinopterygiiorder, pleuronectiformesfamily, pleuronectidaesubfamily, pleuronecti. Pleuronectes is a genus of righteye flounders found in the northern oceans PleuronectesEuropean plaice P platessa Scientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass ActinopterygiiOrder PleuronectiformesFamily PleuronectidaeSubfamily PleuronectinaeGenus PleuronectesLinnaeus 1758Type speciesPleuronectes platessaLinnaeus 1758SynonymsLeptosoma Nardo 1827 Platessa Cuvier 1816 Spanius Gistel 1848Species editThere are currently three recognized species in this genus 1 Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus 1758 European plaice Pleuronectes putnami T N Gill 1864 American smooth flounder Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus Pallas 1814 Alaska plaice References edit Froese Rainer and Pauly Daniel eds 2012 Species of Pleuronectes in FishBase October 2012 version nbsp This order Pleuronectiformes flatfish related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pleuronectes amp oldid 1179984761, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,