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Hippoglossus stenolepis Schmidt 1904

Description

Hippoglossus stenolepis Schmidt, 1904.

Pacific Halibut. To 2.67 m (8.78 ft) TL (Clemens and Wilby 1961). Northern Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk to Kuril Islands, Commander and Aleutian Islands through Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016), to northeastern Chukchi Sea (71°12’N, 163°05’W) (Mecklenburg et al, 2010), to Punta Camalu, Baja California (Allen and Smith 1988). Benthic; depth: 2–2,000 m (8–6,560 ft) (min.: Thomas Hurst, pers. comm. to M.L. from sampling reported in Hurst 2016; 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 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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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.
  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
  • 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.
  • Hurst, T. P. (2016) Shallow-water habitat use by Bering Sea flatfishes along the central Alaska Peninsula. Journal of Sea Research, 111, 37 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. seares. 2015.11.009
  • Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.