platessoides, Pleuronectes Fabricius [O.] 1780:164 [Fauna groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis, etc.; ref. 17464] Western Greenland. No types known. Two subspecies are recognized: platessoides from the western North Atlantic and limandoides from the eastern North Atlantic. •Valid as Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius 1780) -- (Herrera 1896:70 [ref. 39336], Nielsen 1973:624 [ref. 6885], Sakamoto 1984:208 [ref. 5273], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1300 [ref. 13677], Robins & Ray 1986:294 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:544 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:222 [ref. 14674], Amaoka in Okamura et al. 1995:222 [ref. 22531], Evseenko 1996:727 [ref. 24666], Evseenko 1998:60 [ref. 23643], Cooper & Chapleau 1998:707 [ref. 26711], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:564 [ref. 26158], Moore et al. 2003:232 [ref. 27076], Evseenko 2004:6 [ref. 27606], Nelson et al. 2004:181 [ref. 27807], Møller et al. 2010:69 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:186 [ref. 32708], Dolgov 2013:921 [ref. 33112], Parin et al. 2014:532 [ref. 33547], Afonso et al. 2016:73, 167 [ref. 36199], Vinnikov et al. 2018:159 [ref. 35844], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:428 [ref. 36370], Redin & Kartavtsev 2022:19 [ref. 39989], Simian et al. 2022:377 [ref. 40776]). Current status: Valid as Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius 1780). Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae. Distribution: Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic. Habitat: marine.