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
2021
2021-10-19
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Atheresthes stomias
(
Jordan
& Gilbert, 1880)
.
Arrowtooth Flounder
. To
97.8 cm
(
38.5 in
) FL (DFO); about
99.4 cm
(
39.1 in
) TL. Along with the
97.8 cm
fish in the DFO database, Maria Cornthwaite notes that fish as large as
103 cm
(
40.6 in
) FL (about
104.8 in
TL) have been reported in the British Columbia commercial fishery. Commander Islands and east coast of Kamchatka, to Cape Navarin, Bering Sea (northward to south of Saint Lawrence Island,
62°08’N
,
170°18’W
) (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
), to Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002), to Todos Santos (
23°24.6’N
,
110°13.8’W
), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Benthic; depth:
9–1,186 m
(
29–3,890 ft
) (min.:
Levings 1973
; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). Records from the Chukchi Sea are in error (
Mecklenburg and Steinke 2015
).