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 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Pleuronichthys ritteri Starks & Morris, 1907 . Spotted Turbot or Catalina Sanddab. To 32 cm ( 11 in ) SL, about 38 cm ( 15 in ) TL ( City of San Diego 2020 ). Morro Bay (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California; confirmed by Robert Lea and Richard Feeney), central California to southern Baja California ( 24°12’N , 111°21’W ) ( Cabrera Mancilla et al. 1988 ); also reported from the upper Gulf of California ( Grijalva-Chon et al. 1996 ). A catch further north, near San Francisco ( 37°54.6’N ) (NWFSC-FRAM), is without a voucher specimen or other documentation. Benthic; depth: 1–219 m ( 3–718 ft ) (min.: Sommer in Fischer et al. 1995 ; max.: Bradburn et al. 2011 ). A previous record from northern California records ( 37°55’N ) ( Weinberg et al. 2002 ) was determined to be an incorrectly identified Pleuronichthys verticalis Jordan & Gilbert, 1880, by Richard Feeney and Jame Orr (Richard Feeney, pers. comm. to M.L.).