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Published 2014
In other parts of the world, where English-speaking colonists arrived and found species of fish which they thought similar to the dab which they had known in Britain, the name is often used for other members of the family Pleuronectidae. Thus Hippoglossoides platessoides is properly called the American plaice, but is also known as sand-dab or long rough dab. (This particular fish is the very embodiment of confusion in nomenclature since it has also been called a flounder and a sole, while its scientific name suggests an association with the halibut!)