Pseudopleuronectes americanus, Winter flounder : fisheries, aquaculture, gamefish

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Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walbaum, 1792)

Winter flounder
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Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Pleuronectiformes (Flatfishes) > Pleuronectidae (Righteye flounders) > Pleuronectinae
More on author: Walbaum.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / rango de profundidad / distribution range Ecología

marino demersal; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); rango de profundidad 5 - 143 m (Ref. 5951). Temperate; 55°N - 31°N, 82°W - 52°W

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Mapa de puntos | Introducciones | Faunafri

Western Atlantic: Labrador, Canada to Georgia, USA.

Length at first maturity / Tamaño / Peso / Age

Madurez: Lm 26.8  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 64.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 7251); peso máximo publicado: 3.6 kg (Ref. 7251); edad máxima reportada: 14 años (Ref. 52686)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría


Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Adults inhabit soft muddy to moderately hard bottoms (Ref. 5951). Feed predominantly in daytime on organisms living in, on or near the bottom; shrimps, amphipods, crabs, sea urchins and snails (Ref. 12232). Batch spawner (Ref. 51846).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Amaoka, Kunio | Colaboradores

Vinnikov, K.A., R.C. Thomson and T.A. Munroe, 2018. Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 125:147-162. (Ref. 122998)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Vulnerable (VU) (A2bc); Date assessed: 12 February 2021

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesquerías: comercial; Acuicultura: experimental; pesca deportiva: si
FAO - pesquerías: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Referencia 123201): 0.7 - 13.1, mean 6.1 °C (based on 303 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Referencia 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00832 (0.00493 - 0.01404), b=3.08 (2.93 - 3.23), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278):  3.6   ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.
Generation time: 3.5 (2.6 - 4.2) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 20 growth studies.
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179):  Bajo, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 4.5-14 años (K=0.11-0.7(?); tm=2-3; tmax=14).
Prior r = 0.16, 95% CL = 0.10 - 0.23, Based on 3 full stock assessments.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (34 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  High vulnerability (62 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 35.4 [14.3, 62.0] mg/100g; Iron = 0.283 [0.138, 0.554] mg/100g; Protein = 17.4 [15.9, 18.8] %; Omega3 = 0.326 [0.159, 0.664] g/100g; Selenium = 17.6 [8.9, 39.0] μg/100g; VitaminA = 6.04 [1.44, 26.70] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.378 [0.252, 0.579] mg/100g (wet weight);