Winter flounder
| taxon = Pseudopleuronectes americanus
| authority = (
Walbaum, 1792)
| synonyms = *''Pleuronectes americanus''
Walbaum, 1792
*''Pleuronectes planus''
Mitchill, 1814
*''Platessa pusilla''
De Kay, 1842
*''Pseudopleuronectes dignabilis''
Kendall, 1912
| synonyms_ref =
}}
The
winter flounder (''
Pseudopleuronectes americanus''), also known as the
black back, is a right-eyed ("
dextral")
flatfish of the family
Pleuronectidae. It is native to coastal waters of the western north
Atlantic coast, from
Labrador,
Canada to
Georgia,
United States, although it is less common south of Delaware Bay. It is the most common near-shore (shallow-water) flounder in the waters from Newfoundland down through Massachusetts Bay, reaching a maximum size around 61 cm in length and 2.25 kg in weight. The species grows larger on
Georges Bank, where they can reach a length of 70 cm and weight of 3.6 kg. Although winter flounder historically supported large commercial and recreational fisheries, biomass and landings have decreased since the 1980s.
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