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Taxon:
Pleuronectes platessa
C. Linnaeus, 1758
- plaice
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Natura - nature
..Mundus - physical world
....Naturalia - natural bodies
......Biota
........Domain Eukaryota - eukaryotes
..........Unikonta
............Opisthokonta
..............Holozoa
................Kingdom Animalia - animals
..................Epitheliozoa
....................Eumetazoa - eumetazoans
......................Bilateria - bilaterians
........................Eubilateria
..........................Deuterostomia - deuterostomes
............................Phylum Chordata - chordates
..............................Subphylum Vertebrata - vertebrates
................................Infraphylum Gnathostomata - jawed vertebrates
..................................Class Osteichthyes
....................................Subclass Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes
......................................Infraclass Actinopteri
........................................Superdivision Neopterygii
..........................................Division Halecostomi
............................................Subdivision Teleostei
..............................................Infradivision Elopocephala
................................................Cohort Clupeocephala
..................................................Subcohort Euteleostei
....................................................Infracohort Neognathi
......................................................Division Neoteleostei
........................................................Subdivision Eurypterygii
..........................................................Infradivision Ctenosquamata
............................................................Acanthomorpha
..............................................................Superorder Acanthopterygii
................................................................Series Percomorpha
..................................................................Order Pleuronectiformes
....................................................................Suborder Pleuronectoidei
......................................................................Family Pleuronectidae - righteye flounders
........................................................................Subfamily Pleuronectinae
..........................................................................Genus Pleuronectes
............................................................................Species Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus - Alaska plaice
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes achirus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes cynoglossus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes flesus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes hippoglossus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes limanda)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes lineatus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes linguatula)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes lunatus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes maximus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes ocellatus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes pallasi)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes papillosus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes passer)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes putnami) - smooth flounder
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes rhombus)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes solea)
............................................................................(Species Pleuronectes trichodactylus)
............................................................................Species Pleuronectes platessa - plaice
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Circumlittoral
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Last updated: 7 Apr 2012