Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
Pallas, 1814
.
Alaska Plaice
or Lemon Sole. To
66 cm
(
26 in
) TL (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2018
). Seas of
Japan
(
Lindberg and Fedorov 1993
) and Okhotsk,
Hokkaido
, Kuril Islands and south-eastern Kamchatka (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
) to Chukchi Sea, as far northward as
70°16’N
,
163°58’W
(
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
) and near Barrow, Alaska (
Johnson
et al.
2012
) to eastern Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska to south-eastern Alaska near Ketchikan (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002); one record from Bellingham Bay, Washington (
Townsend 1936
). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (
Dyldin and Orlov 2017
); depth:
2–600 m
(
8–1,968 ft
) (min.: Thomas Hurst, pers. comm. to M.L. from sampling reported in
Hurst 2016
;
Federov
et al.
2003
), except reported to
850 m
(
2,789 ft
) or more in winter in Sea of Okhotsk (
Kim
et al.
1999
).
Pleuronectes pallasii
Steindachner, 1880
, is a junior synonym and the name under which the Washington record was published (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002). Hybrids of this species and
Platichthys stellatus
have been described from Bristol Bay and off Saint Matthew Island, Alaska (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2018
).