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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Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
(Walbaum, 1792)
.
Greenland
Halibut
or Pacific Black Halibut. To
130 cm
(
51.2 in
) TL (
Fadeev 1987
). Nearly circumpolar; North Atlantic, Arctic, and North Pacific Oceans; Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002) to just south of U.S.–Mexico border (Hubbs and
Wilimovsky 1964
). Not documented from the central Canadian High Arctic or East Siberian Sea (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
). Benthic but often ascends well into the water column (
Love
et al.
2011
); depth:
10–2,000 m
(
33–6,562 ft
) (min.:
Orlov and Tokranov 2019
; max.:
Allen and Smith 1988
).