hippoglossus, Pleuronectes Linnaeus [C.] 1758:269 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] European seas. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.127 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:242 [ref. 13434]. •Valid as Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Backus 1951:293 [ref. 41140], Nielsen 1973:624 [ref. 6885], Sakamoto 1984:208 [ref. 5273], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1301 [ref. 13677], Robins & Ray 1986:294 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:547 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:222 [ref. 14674], Amaoka in Okamura et al. 1995:223 [ref. 22531], Evseenko 1996:727 [ref. 24666], Evseenko 1998:59 [ref. 23643], Cooper & Chapleau 1998:705 [ref. 26711], Musick 2000:19 [ref. 24959], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:569 [ref. 26158], Moore et al. 2003:232 [ref. 27076], Evseenko 2003:S62 [ref. 28535], Evseenko 2004:6 [ref. 27606], Nelson et al. 2004:181 [ref. 27807], Fricke 2007:25 [ref. 30577], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:186 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:533 [ref. 33547], Afonso et al. 2016:73, 169 [ref. 36199], Vinnikov et al. 2018:159 [ref. 35844], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:430 [ref. 36370], Iglésias et al. 2019:282 [ref. 37098], Redin & Kartavtsev 2022:19 [ref. 39989], Simian et al. 2022:377 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:133 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Linnaeus 1758). Pleuronectidae: Hippoglossinae. Distribution: North Atlantic and adjacent Arctic Ocean, south to North Sea. Habitat: marine.