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Platichthys stellatus

Description

Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1787).

Starry Flounder. To 91 cm (36 in) TL (Clemens and Wilby 1946). Sea of Japan off Korean Peninsula and Japan (southward to Honshu) to Sea of Okhotsk, to Arctic Ocean in East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and eastwards in Canada to Bathhurst Inlet, Nunavut (Alfonso in Coad and Reist 2018), and northeast to Count Melville Sound (Stewart et al. 1993), and Bering Sea and Commander–Aleutian Chain (citations in Mecklenburg et al. 2002, 2016) to Los Angeles Harbor, southern California (Kramer et al. 1995). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal to about 660 m (2,165 ft) (min.: Kramer et al. 1995; max.: Panchenko et al. 2016). We follow Eschmeyer (1998 and online editions) in retaining 1787 for the date of publication; sometimes given as 1788.

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1946) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.
  • Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
  • Stewart, D. B., Ratynski, R. A., Bernier, L. M. S. & Ramsey, D. J. (1993) A fishery development strategy for the Canadian Beaufort Sea - Amundsen Gulf area. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries Aquatic Sciences, 1910.
  • Kramer, D. E., Barss, W. H., Paust, B. C. & Bracken, B. E. (1995) Guide to northeast Pacific flatfishes: families Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, and Pleuronectidae. University of Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks, Marine Advisory Bulletin, 47.
  • Dyldin, Yu. V. & Orlov, A. M. (2017) Ichthyofauna of fresh and brackish waters of Sakhalin Island: an annotated list with taxonomic comments: 3. Gadidae - Cruptacanthodidae families. Journal of Ichthyology, 57, 53 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945217010039
  • Panchenko, V. V., Kalchugin, P. V. & Solomatov, S. F. (2016) Specification of the habitation depths and maximum sizes for the demersal fish species in the Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan. Journal of Ichthyology, 56, 348 - 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945216030127
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. (Ed.). (1998) Catalog of Fishes. Volumes 1 and 2. Special Publication No. 1, Center for Biodiversity Research and Information. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.