stellatus, Pleuronectes Pallas [P. S.] 1787:347, Pl. 9 (fig. 1) [Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae v. 1 (Physica) (for 1783); ref. 18507] Kuril Islands; circa Kamtschatcam [Kamchatka Peninsula]. Possible types: ZMB 7415 (1). Type catalog: Voronina & Volkova 2019:281 [ref. 37075] (no types at ZIN). •Valid as Pleuronectes stellatus Pallas 1787 -- (Herrera 1896:70 [ref. 39336]). •Synonym of Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus 1758) subspecies luscus (Pallas 1814) -- (Evseenko 2003:S67 [ref. 28535], Evseenko 2004:12 [ref. 27606], Nelson et al. 2004:181 [ref. 27807] dating to 1788, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:243 [ref. 28183], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:354 [ref. 30085], Scharpf 2009:15 [ref. 30400], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Page & Burr 2011:620 [ref. 31215], Voronina & Chanet 2014:45 [ref. 33419]). •Valid as Platichthys stellatus (Pallas 1787) -- (Berg 1949:1192 [ref. 20662], Okada 1961:713 [ref. 6363], Lee et al. 1980:830 [ref. 22416], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:291 [ref. 9277], Sakamoto 1984:209 [ref. 5273], Sakamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:353 [ref. 6441], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:670 [ref. 25598], Matarese et al. 1989:612 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:223 [ref. 14674], Swift et al. 1993:132 [ref. 22379], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:148 [ref. 21500], Kim & Youn 1994:121 [ref. 22286], Li & Wang 1995:251 [ref. 16193], Chereshnev 1996:607 [ref. 24659], Kim 1997:492 [ref. 24032], Nikiforov et al. 1997:330 [ref. 24694], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva 1998:160 [ref. 23573], Evseenko 1998:60 [ref. 23643], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:14 [ref. 24670], Cooper & Chapleau 1998:716 [ref. 26711], Fuller et al. 1999:483 [ref. 25838], Nakabo 2000:1371 [ref. 25182], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:41 [ref. 25650], Zemnukhov et al. 2001:420 [ref. 25412], Kolpakov & Barabanshchikov 2001:423 [ref. 25413], Pietsch et al. 2001:147 [ref. 25688], Kim & Park 2002:412 [ref. 25913], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:833 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:1371 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:432, 685 [ref. 26218] dated 1811, Moyle 2002:444 [ref. 26449], Hagiwara 2003:40 [ref. 27188], Fedorov et al. 2003:141 [ref. 27579], Wydoski & Whitney 2003:216 [ref. 27816], Love et al. 2005:176 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:186 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:541 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:165 [ref. 34033], Pietsch & Orr 2015:71 [ref. 34694], Afonso et al. 2016:73, 251 [ref. 36199], Kells et al. 2016:334 [ref. 35888], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:198 [ref. 35257], Vinnikov et al. 2018:160 [ref. 35844], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:447 [ref. 36370] see remarks, Burton & Lea 2019:97 [ref. 37205], Kim et al. 2020:191 [ref. 39118], Dyldin et al. 2021:42 [ref. 38804], Love et al. 2021:220 [ref. 39279], Redin & Kartavtsev 2022:19 [ref. 39989], Tashiro 2022:85 [ref. 39012], Page et al. 2023:134 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Platichthys stellatus (Pallas 1787). Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae. Distribution: Arctic Ocean and North Pacific. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.