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TI Pleuronectes platessa, a ghost fish in the Mediterranean Sea?
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AF LLEONART, Jordi
   FARRUGIO, Henri
AS 1:1;2:2;
FF 1:;2:PDG-RBE-HM-RHSETE;
C1 CSIC, Passeig Maritim Barceloneta, Inst Ciencies Mar, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain.
   IFREMER, F-34200 Sete, France.
C2 CSIC, SPAIN
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI SETE
SE PDG-RBE-HM-RHSETE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   DOAJ
   copubli-europe
IF 1.01
TC 3
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00074/18570/16122.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MEDITS / FR
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BO L'Europe
DE ;Pleuronectes platessa;plaice;Mediterranean Sea;Pleuronectidae
AB European plaice Pleuronectes platessa often appears in ichthyological check lists for the Mediterranean Sea, as well as in regional field guides and even in some official national landings statistics. However we have not found a single ichthyologist or fisheries biologist who has actually observed this fish in the Mediterranean. The ichthyologic sources available, from classical antiquity to recent times, were checked in order to follow the track of the citations (i.e. true field observations or citations of former authors), and to try to detect misidentifications, if any. Few of these citations appear to be reliable and misidentifications with flounder Platichthys fie:sus are frequent. Recent scientific trawl surveys have not reported any observations of plaice. The statistics provided by France to the FAO with positive catches of P. platessa appear to be misidentifications of P. flesus. Plaice may have been present in some areas of the Mediterranean in the past, as a result of climatic changes related to the ice age. However, the species seems to be absent now. We propose that this species should be removed from the ichthyofauna records of the Mediterranean.
PY 2012
PD MAR
SO Scientia Marina
SN 0214-8358
PU Inst Ciencias Mar Barcelona
VL 76
IS 1
UT 000301806800015
BP 141
EP 147
DI 10.3989/scimar.03348.02B
ID 18570
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