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American plaice, Long Rough Dab

Hippoglossoides platessoides

90,129Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
1Counties with records
EndangeredIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan8,648
Feb22,729
Mar4,719
Apr406
May20
Jun149
Jul6,060
Aug28,305
Sep9,587
Oct1,607
Nov6,551
Dec1,345

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Aberdeenshire Scotland22
78 England6 Scotland19 Wales691 Northern Ireland45 Isle of Man

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 1 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
90,129
Peak month
August
Counties with records
1
IUCN Red List
Endangered
Scientific name
Hippoglossoides platessoides
Group
Fish
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,333
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Pleuronectiformes
Family
Pleuronectidae
Genus
Hippoglossoides
Name with authority
Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius, 1780)
Described
1780
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1234702 · GBIF 2409104