Annotated catalogue of type specimens of flatfishes (Osteichthyes: Pleuronectiformes) in the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Author
Voronina, Elena P.
Author
Volkova, Galina A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-08
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4695.3.2
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Solea fasciata
Basilewsky, 1855
Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Natur.
Moscou
, 10: 261
Current status:
Uncertain
Type
:
ZIN 5273
Shantung
[
Shandong
],
China
.
Lost in Second World War
.
No evidence exists that
type
specimens of 13 species and subspecies described from Russian waters were ever deposited in the
ZIN
collection. Among these are:
Pleuronectes glacialis
Pallas, 1776
from the Kara Bay, Arctic Ocean;
Pleuronectes asper
Pallas, 1814
,
Pleuronectes cicatricosus
Pallas, 1814
,
Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
Pallas, 1814
and
Pleuronectes stellatus
Pallas, 1814
from the Far East Seas;
Pleuronectes luscus
Pallas, 1814
,
Pleuronectes maeoticus
Pallas, 1814
and
Pleuronectes nasutus
Pallas, 1814
from the Black Sea;
Glyptocephalus ostroumowi
Pavlenko, 1910
(
5 specimens
) and
Limanda angustirostris
var.
maculosa
Pavlenko, 1910
(
2 specimens
) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of
Japan
;
Pleuronectes flesus
nat.
caninensis
Suvorov, 1929 (
14 specimens
) and
Pleuronectes glacialis
nat.
caninensis
Suvorov, 1929 (
19 specimens
) from Cheshskaya Bay, Barents Sea, and
Liopsetta glacialis knipowitschi
Essipov, 1939
from the Kara Sea.