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Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfish
Flatfish

The flatfish are an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classifie






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Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfish
Flatfish

The flatfish are an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes. The name means "side-swimmers" in Greek language....
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  • Alaska plaice
    Alaska plaice

    Alaska plaice is a saltwater fish that live in the North Pacific Ocean. Like most flatfish, they live on the bottom of the continental shelf, up to 600 metres deep....
    , Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
  • American plaice
    American plaice

    The American plaice or sole, Hippoglossoides platessoides, is a flatfish that belongs, along with other right eyed flounders, to the Pleuronectidae family....
    , Hippoglossoides platessoides
  • European plaice
    European plaice

    European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, are a commercially important flatfish occurring on the sandy bottoms of the European shelf. Its geographical range is from the Barents Sea to the Mediterranean....
    , Pleuronectes platessa
  • Scale-eye plaice, Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi


Plaice can also mean:

  • USS Plaice (SS-390)
    USS Plaice (SS-390)

    USS Plaice , a Balao class submarine submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the American plaice, one of the various American flatfish; summer flounder....
    , a Balao-class submarine
  • PLAICE
    Plaice

    Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfishes:* Alaska plaice, Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus* American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides...
    , an open source hardware FLASH programmer, memory emulator, and logic analyzer