luscus, Pleuronectes Pallas [P. S.] 1814:427 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Feodosiya [Feodosia], Crimea, Ukraine [Black Sea]. No types known. Type catalog: Voronina & Volkova 2019:281 [ref. 37075] (no types at ZIN). •Synonym of Pleuronectes flesus Linnaeus 1758, but a valid subspecies luscus Pallas 1814 -- (Berg 1949:1190 [ref. 20662], Mitrofanov et al. 1992:27 [ref. 37756]). •Synonym of Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kottelat 1997:182 [ref. 22952], Vasil'eva 2007:188 [ref. 30517]). •Synonym of Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus 1758), but a valid subspecies -- (Nielsen 1973:626 [ref. 6885], Sakamoto 1984:209 [ref. 5273], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1305 [ref. 13677], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva 1998:159 [ref. 23573], Voronina 1999:612 [ref. 24880], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:151 [ref. 26753] dated to 1811, Evseenko 2003:S67 [ref. 28535], Evseenko 2004:11 [ref. 27606], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:184 [ref. 28369]). •Valid as Platichthys luscus (Pallas 1814) -- (Fricke et al. 2007:114 [ref. 29533], Fricke 2008:57 [ref. 30182], Çiçek et al. 2015:152 [ref. 35151], Çiçek et al. 2020:259 [ref. 37644]). Current status: Valid as Platichthys luscus (Pallas 1814). Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae. Distribution: Black Sea; Sea of Azov; northeastern Mediterranean Sea; introduced into Caspian Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.