Pleuronectes platessa

Philippe Velghe What's up, doc? Netherlands, Zeeland- Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) Canon G10 iso100- 1/125- f8 Diopter +6

Evie Go looks grumpy... hehehe..no morning caffein fix yet. ^_^ NIce shot Ado Diver!

Mason Blunt Maybe it misses Mr. Blue

Philippe Velghe It was an early morning dive, he thought..here we go. The first tourist today :-)

Evie Go Hehe, perhaps it needs a dive buddy like Mr. Blue to play with underwaters! ^_^ Mr. Blue is missing the waters!!!

Holvoet Bart mooi scherp Ado

Philippe Velghe Thx Bart!

Vanessa Costa Fabulous details!!

Philippe Velghe Thx,I appreciate the comments and the thumb up :-)

Brooke Kuhlman Jolley I'm lovin' these Cannon G series... Looking at getting the G12. What housing do you have??

Philippe Velghe Ikelite house Brooke Kuhlman Jolley.

Ken Thongpila Nice shot.. Ado Diver, Love that you shown the grumpy look of it...

Philippe Velghe Thx Ken :-)

Rudolf Svensen Captured this image of a flatfish larvae some years ago whan we still had analog cameras. It was swimming pelagic at 20 meters in a fjord of the South-west coast of Norway. I would guess it was aprox 10 mm long. Anybody who can identify it?

Chris Barrett Pleuronectes platessa?

Ronni Bless Bekkemellem Taken in our cold waters of Norway. D3200 with 105mm.

Donna Lavoie What the heck is it?

Ronni Bless Bekkemellem Sorry Donna Lavoie, , this is a Pleuronectes Platessa :)

Juanjo Alonso Great portrait

Ronni Bless Bekkemellem Thanks Juanjo Alonso :)

Donna Lavoie Flounder like fish?

Ronni Bless Bekkemellem Yes, with red spots on it :)

Ilse Merz great shot

Ronni Bless Bekkemellem Thanks Ilse Merz :)

Giorgio Cavallaro (Y)

Zanetti Martina <3

Gareth Horton Found the first weever fish of the year off Shoreham/wide water. Seems quite early. And quite painful!!

Andy Horton Hearsay or personal experience? http://www.glaucus.org.uk/weever2.htm The pain. Describe in detail for the records please and how the unfortunate fish was trodden on!

David Wilson Two of my 3 children have been stung. Matt was sorting through a shrimp net at Salcombe and was stung on the thumb. Sophie jumped over the side of the boat at Shell Bay, Studland straight on to a weaver. Bathing the area in water as hot as you can bear and anti-histamines help.

Andy Horton Over 40 degrees C, which I think is half boiling water and half tepid water

Gareth Horton Thought I'd replied earlier so apologies. 2.5 feet of water and paddling with the dogs east of the wide water Shoreham. Just caught the ball of my foot behind my left big toe. Was much like stepping on glass or sharp mollusc. Pain was 6/10 for 45 minutes then subsided with waves of soreness all day. First sting for twenty odd years so not bad for a bloke in the sea nearly everyday. Risks are low clearly but glad it was me and not dogs or young son!

Andy Horton One of the BMLSS members did the science on temps. I translated it by sticking the thermometer in a cuppa tea.

Ronald Surgenor Heres a link to one of my weaver fish photos, they can be handled with care and touch wood I haven't been stung yet!! a guy gave a tip of warming a damp towel on the engine block of a boat/car to wrap around the stung area until you get access to proper medical treatment. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaldsurgenor/4920060501/

Andy Horton That looks like a large one. Weevers have fierce razor teeth and its lucky they are not bigger as they could do some damage and make the Jaws teeth look tame. Also biting parasites. Deaths are very rare.

Huan Tan They taste good.

Andy Horton Greater Weever seen on the fishmonger's slab

Andy Horton George D Moffat: off Sussex, local boats, not many.

Douglas Herdson Greater Weever also gets caught off Devon and especially Cornwall. Not often landed, but occasional quarter boxes, presumably go for fish soup.

Andy Horton One or two reports indicate the Greater Weever may have a greater sting: (Quote) I was stung on the tip of my right index finger by a Greater Weever three years ago in Tenerife. After spending four days in the local hospital in intense pain, with my whole arm swollen to the size of my thigh, I have lost the use of this finger: I cannot bend it nor straighten it, it is always cold to the touch and any slight scratches take five to six weeks to heal. (Alan Brady). This could be another species though ??? Scorpion Fish species comes to mind. NB: Lesser Weever stings can have the effects of being unable to move toes.

Andy Horton weever | wiv | n. E17. [Perh. transf. use of OFr. wivre serpent, dragon, var. of guivre f. L vipera VIPER.] More fully weever-fish. Any of various elongated NE Atlantic fishes of the genus Trachinus and family Trachinidae, which lie half buried in sand and have venomous dorsal and opercular spines with which they can inflict painful wounds; esp. (more fully lesser weever) T. vipera, which is common along European and Mediterranean coasts (also called viperfish). Also (Austral.), any of various sand perches of the family Mugiloididae. --------------------------------------------------------- Excerpted from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia Developed by The Learning Company, Inc.

Andy Horton Echiichthys vipera http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=1364 PS: Going shrimping this morning

Penny Martin enjoy the shrimping ... you are up early !!

Andy Horton I could not get to sleep.

Andy Horton Ideal shrimping conditions, but just an average shrimp haul. Two small Weevers but not much else and no Slipper Soles (which is unusual).

Andy Horton 28 May 2012 A special shrimping trip to Lancing Beach (by Widewater) (with Dudley, & others) in ideal weather conditions (1.5 metre neap low tide) caught three pints of Brown Shrimps, Crangon crangon,between us, but there was not much else in the nets: frequent flatfish fry, two small Lesser Weever, Echiichthys vipera, one swimming crab Portumnus latipes with "fleur-de lis" markings, one Vernal Crab, Liocarcinus vernalis, one badly damaged (but still alive, it nipped me) Masked Crab, Corystes cassivelaunus, a few large green Shore Crabs, Carcinus maenas, and a small Plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, (or possibly a Flounder?).