| American smooth flounder | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Pleuronectiformes |
| Family: | Pleuronectidae |
| Genus: | Pleuronectes |
| Species: | P. putnami
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleuronectes putnami (Gill, 1864)
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| Distribution of American smooth flounder | |
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The American smooth flounder (Pleuronectes putnami) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that inhabits shallow inshore salt and brackish waters at depths of up to 27 metres (89 ft). Its native habitat is the temperate waters of the northwestern Atlantic, from Ungava Bay in Quebec, Canada to Rhode Island, United States. It can grow up to 30 centimetres (12 in) in length.[1][2]
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pleuronectes putnami". FishBase. February 2018 version.
- ^ Armstrong, Michael P.; Starr, Bethany A. (1994). "Reproductive Biology of the Smooth Flounder in Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire" (PDF). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 123: 112–114. doi:10.1577/1548-8659(1994)123<0112:rbotsf>2.3.co;2. Retrieved 2011-08-12.