Liopsetta glacialis

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Pleuronectiformes; Pleuronectidae; Liopsetta; Liopsetta glacialis; Barents Sea; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Kamchatka; White Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609876; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF4BFF6E98EAF86DFFDA3160

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). 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