European plaice European plaice The European plaice ("Pleuronectes platessa") is a commercially important flatfish. The geographical range of the European plaice is off all coasts from the Barents Sea to the Mediterranean, also in the Northeast Atlantic and off Greenland. In some locales such as the Irish Sea this species is considered fully exploited by commercial fishing. It is a common flatfish, occurring on the sandy and muddy bottoms of the European shelf, usually at depths between 10 and 50 m, where they tend to burrow in sediment during day time and remain stationary for long periods. They can be found at
Pseudorhombus arsius Pseudorhombus arsius Pseudorhombus arsius, the largetooth flounder, is a species of left-eyed flatfish, that is the dark side with the eyes on the adult fish is the left side of the fish's body, from the family Paralichthyidae. As "Rhombus polyspilos" it was named as the type species of the genus "Pseudorhombus". It is an Indo-Pacific species and is fished for by both recreational and commercial fisheries. "Pseudorhombus arsius" has an oval-shaped body which has a depth which is 1.8 to 2.3 times its standard length. The head has a slight notch in front of upper eye. The eyes are on