Liopsetta glacialis
Description
Liopsetta glacialis (Pallas, 1776).
Arctic Flounder or Polar Flounder. To 44 cm (17.3 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Arctic coasts of Russia from south-eastern Barents Sea and White Sea to Arctic North America eastward to Queen Maude Gulf; southward in eastern Bering Sea to Bristol Bay, and along the Alaska Peninsula (documentation for presence along Aleutian Islands is lacking); western Pacific to south-eastern Kamchatka, northern Kuril Islands, and Sea of Okhotsk (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Morrow 1980, Fricke et al. 2020); depth: in shallow brackish waters of bays and estuaries to about 25 m (81 ft) (Kobelev 1989); rarely, if ever, found in deeper water (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), but reported to 91 m (298 ft) (Kramer et al. 1995). Also recently as Pleuronectes glacialis Pallas, 1776 (Alfonso in Coad and Reist 2018).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Liopsetta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- glacialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Liopsetta glacialis (Pallas, 1776) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
- Morrow, J. E. (1980) The Freshwater Fishes of Alaska. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, Anchorage.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
- Kobelev, E. A. (1989) Some biological characteristics of the Arctic flounder, Liopsetta glacialis, in the southeastern area of the Barents Sea. Journal of Ichthyology, 29, 16 - 21.
- Kramer, D. E., Barss, W. H., Paust, B. C. & Bracken, B. E. (1995) Guide to northeast Pacific flatfishes: families Bothidae, Cynoglossidae, and Pleuronectidae. University of Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks, Marine Advisory Bulletin, 47.
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.