What is American plaice?
{{Taxobox | name = American plaice | image = Plie canadienne (Hippoglossoides platessoides).jpg | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Actinopterygii]] | ordo = [[Pleuronectiformes]] | familia = [[Pleuronectidae]] (righteye flounders) | genus = ''[[Hippoglossoides]]'' | species = '''''H. platessoides''''' | binomial = ''Hippoglossoides platessoides'' | binomial_authority = [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], 1780 }} '''American plaice''' (''Hippoglossoides platessoides'') are [[salt water]] [[fish]] that live in the northwest [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Like most [[flatfish]], they live on the bottom of the [[continental shelf]], up to 700 [[metre]]s deep, but spend most of the time at 90 to 200 meters. Their [[geography|geographical]] range is from the coast of [[Labrador, Canada|Labrador]], south to the coast of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Rhode Island]]. The most are found off the eastern tip of [[Newfoundland]]. American plaice feed on [[sand dollar]]s, [[brittle star]]s, [[crustacean]]s, [[polychaete]]s, and fish such as [[capelin]] and [[launce]]. Like many flatfish, American plaice are sometimes said to be a [[flounder]] or [[dab]], even though both are names for other fish [[species]]. The U.K.-based [[Marine Conservation Society]] rates American plaice as 5, the most threatened category of over-harvested animals. ==Related pages== *[[Alaska plaice]] *[[European Plaice]] == References == *[http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/fbi/age-man/ampl/ampl.htm American plaice information] ([[Northeast Fisheries Science Center]] (U.S.)) *[http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/zone/underwater_sous-marin/plaice/plaice-plie_e.htm American plaice information] ([[National Marine Fisheries Service]] (Canada)) *[http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=4239 FishBase article] *[http://www.fishonline.org/advice/avoid/?item=2 Ecological status of American plaice] ([[Marine Conservation Society]]) [[Category:Flatfish]]