Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Atheresthes stomias

Description

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).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Moller, P. R. & Steinke, D. (2011) Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 109 - 140. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0070 - z
  • Levings, C. D. (1973) Sediments and abundance of Lycodopsis pacifica (Pisces, Zoarcidae) near Point Grey, B. C., with catch data for associated demersal fish. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Technical Report, 393.
  • Mecklenburg, C. W. & Steinke, D. (2015) Ichthyofaunal baselines in the Pacific Arctic region and the RUSALCA study area. Oceanography, 28, 158 - 189. https: // doi. org / 10.5670 / oceanog. 2015.64