Microstomus bathybius

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Pleuronectiformes; Pleuronectidae; Microstomus; Microstomus bathybius; Bering Sea; Milton; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5609880; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609880

Microstomus bathybius (Gilbert, 1890). Deepsea Sole. To 55.2 cm (21.7 in) TL (DFO). Hokkaido, Japan (Sakamoto in Masuda et al. 1984), to Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to southern California (32°38’N, 119°24’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Benthic; depth: 41–1,743 m (134–5,717 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: DFO). Individuals taken at the shallower depths typically are juveniles. Formerly Embassichthys bathybius (Gilbert, 1890). 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