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Microstomus pacificus
Description
Microstomus pacificus (Lockington, 1879).
Dover Sole, Slime Sole, or Slippery Flounder. To 85.2 cm (33.5 in) TL (DFO). North-western Bering Sea (Evseenko 2003), and south-eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands from Stalemate Bank (Allen and Smith 1988) to just south of Punta San Juanico, southern Baja California (25°59’N, 113°17’W) (Snytko 1987). Benthic; depth: 2 m or less to 1,400 m (7–4,592 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980; max.: Pietsch and Orr 2019).
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 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Microstomus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lockington
- Species
- pacificus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microstomus pacificus (Lockington, 1879) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Evseenko, S. A. (2003) An annotated catalogue of pleuronectiform fishes (Order Pleuronectiformes) of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 57 - S 74.
- Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.
- Snytko, V. A. (1987) New data on the distribution of some species of fish in the North Pacific. Journal of Ichthyology, 27, 142 - 146.
- Miller, B. S., Simenstad, C. A., Cross, J. N., Fresh, K. L. & Steinfort, S. N. (1980) Nearshore fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages along the Strait of Juan de Fuca including food habits of the common nearshore fish. Interagency Energy / Environment R and D Program Report. EPA- 600 / 7 - 80 - 027.
- Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.