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Flatfish Family Relations There are many flatfish, and even more names for them; this list includes only the more common.. The names are often misleading: American waters don’t harbor tr

of the gill and tail Because the blood contains both enzymes and reactive hemoglobin iron, bleeding improves the fish’s flavor, texture, color, and market life Workers then clean the fish while it’s still cold, and may wrap it in plastic to protect it from direct contact with ice or air

Flatfish Family Relations

There are many flatfish, and even more names for them; this list includes only the more common The names are often misleading: American waters don’t harbor true soles; some halibuts aren’t halibuts or turbots turbots

True European soles

Dover, English sole Solea solea

French sole Pegusa lascaris

Other European flatfish

Turbot Psetta maxima

Atlantic halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus Plaice Pleuronectes platessa

Flounder Platichthys flesus

West Atlantic flatfish

Halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus

Winter, common

flounder, lemon sole

Pseudopleuronectes americanus

Summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus

Greenland halibut or

turbot

Reinhardtius hippoglossoides

East Pacific flatfish

Petrale sole Eopsetta jordani

Rex sole Glyptocephalus zachirus

Pacific sand dab Citharichthys sordidus

Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepsis