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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Lepidopsetta bilineata
(Ayres, 1855)
.
Rock Sole or
Southern Rock Sole
. To perhaps
58 cm
(
22.8 in
) TL (
Orr and Matarese 2000
). There is a maximum length of
59.5 cm
(
23.4 in
) TL in the DFO database. However, this datum cannot be confirmed, as the DFO database does not differentiate between
L. bilineata
and
Lepidopsetta polyxystra
Orr & Matarese, 2000
. Bering Sea near Pribilof Islands (
56°02’N
169°53’W
), and western Aleutian Islands near Buldir Island (
51°58’N
,
176°05’E
) (
Maslenikov
et al.
2013
); transforming larva captured further northward at
57°54’N
,
169°40’W
(
Maslenikov
et al.
2013
), and south-eastern Bering Sea (Slime Bank north of Unimak Island) to
Cortes
Bank (
Orr and Matarese 2000
), and La Jolla (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla,
California
), southern
California
. Benthic; depth:
1–476 m
(
3–1,561 ft
) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla,
California
; max.: DFO). The AFS–ASIH fish names committee (
Nelson
et al.
2004) chose to keep the name Rock Sole for this fish, but with the new species, the Northern Rock Sole, we feel it is less confusing to call
L. bilineata
the Southern Rock Sole, as recommended by
Orr and Matarese (2000)
.