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 Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1787) . Starry Flounder . To 91 cm ( 36 in ) TL ( Clemens and Wilby 1946 ). Sea of Japan off Korean Peninsula and Japan (southward to Honshu) to Sea of Okhotsk, to Arctic Ocean in East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and eastwards in Canada to Bathhurst Inlet, Nunavut (Alfonso in Coad and Reist 2018 ), and northeast to Count Melville Sound ( Stewart et al. 1993 ), and Bering Sea and Commander–Aleutian Chain (citations in Mecklenburg et al. 2002, 2016) to Los Angeles Harbor, southern California ( Kramer et al. 1995 ). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters ( Dyldin and Orlov 2017 ); depth: intertidal to about 660 m ( 2,165 ft ) (min.: Kramer et al. 1995 ; max.: Panchenko et al. 2016 ). We follow Eschmeyer (1998 and online editions) in retaining 1787 for the date of publication; sometimes given as 1788.