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Psettichthys melanostictus Girard 1854
Description
Psettichthys melanostictus Girard, 1854.
Sand Sole or Fringe Sole. To 63 cm (24.8 in) TL (Clemens and Wilby 1961). South-eastern Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands from Unalaska Island to Port Heiden, and Gulf of Alaska (Allen and Smith 1988) to La Jolla, southern California (Moore et al. 2012). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 325 m (1,066 ft) (min.: Bolin 1975; max.: Allen and Smith 1988).
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 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pleuronectidae
- Genus
- Psettichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- melanostictus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psettichthys melanostictus Girard, 1854 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1961) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada, Second Edition. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.
- 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.
- Moore, R. H., Miller, E. & Love, M. S. (2012) Southern occurrence of the sand sole (Psettichthys melanostictus). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 110, 184 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.3160 / 0038 - 3872 - 110.3.184
- Bolin, R. L. (1975) Intertidal Fishes. In: Smith, R. I. & Carlton, J. T. (Eds.), Light's Manual. Third Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 656 - 668.