Pleuronectes Linnaeus [C.] 1758:268 Masc. Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated first by Bory de Saint-Vincent, v. 14, 1828:58, 65 [ref. 3853] (see Whitley 1935:137 [ref. 6396]). On Official List (Direction 33). Name spelled Plueronectes by Low 1813:212 [ref. 30345]. •Valid as Pleuronectes Linnaeus 1758 -- (Norman 1934:348 [ref. 6893], Nielsen 1973:623 [ref. 6885], Ahlstrom et al. 1984:643 [ref. 13641], Sakamoto 1984:209 [ref. 5273], Sakamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:353 [ref. 6441], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1305 [ref. 13677], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:112 [ref. 21500], Rass 1996:569 [ref. 24656] with restricted definition, Dorofeeva 1998:160 [ref. 23573], Cooper & Chapleau 1998:716 [ref. 26711], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:820 [ref. 25968], Evseenko 2003:S67 [ref. 28535], Evseenko 2004:12 [ref. 27606], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:243 [ref. 28183], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:592 [ref. 29996], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:73 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Shinohara et al. 2011:57 [ref. 31715], Parin et al. 2014:542 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:199 [ref. 35257], Vinnikov et al. 2018:160 [ref. 35844]). Current status: Valid as Pleuronectes Linnaeus 1758. Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae.