kleinii, Rhombus Risso [A.] 1827:255 [Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale v. 3; ref. 3757] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Desoutter et al. 2001:346 [ref. 25922]. •Valid as Solea kleini (Risso 1827) -- (Torchio 1973:629 [ref. 6892], Quéro et al. in Whitehead et al. 1986:1319 [ref. 13677]). •Valid as Synaptura kleinii (Risso 1827) -- (Desoutter 1990:1047 [ref. 18967], Desoutter et al. 2001:328 [ref. 25922] but dating to 1810, Golani 2005:63 [ref. 37112], Golani 2021:87 [ref. 38303]). •Valid as Synapturichthys kleinii (Risso 1827) -- (Heemstra & Gon 1986:874 [ref. 5665], Evseenko 1998:61 [ref. 23643], Desoutter et al. 2001:346 [ref. 25922], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:155 [ref. 26753], Fricke et al. 2007:116 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:75 [ref. 36649], Desoutter-Meniger & Munroe in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3028 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:95 [ref. 36550], Carneiro et al. 2019:195 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36864], Kovačić et al. 2020:29 [ref. 37519], Iglésias et al. 2021:183 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:50 [ref. 39014], Desoutter-Meniger & Chapleau 2022:404 [ref. 40245]). Current status: Valid as Synapturichthys kleinii (Risso 1827). Soleidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: Morocco south to Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), then north to KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). Habitat: brackish, marine.