melanostictus, Psettichthys Girard [C. F.] 1854:140 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 7; ref. 1817] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. No types known. •Valid as Psettichthys melanostictus Girard 1854 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:293 [ref. 9277], Sakamoto 1984:208 [ref. 5273], Matarese et al. 1989:620 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:224 [ref. 14674], Evseenko 1998:60 [ref. 23643], Cooper & Chapleau 1998:708 [ref. 26711], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:824 [ref. 25968], Evseenko 2004:13 [ref. 27606], Nelson et al. 2004:182 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:177 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:187 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:71 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:336 [ref. 35888], Vinnikov et al. 2018:160 [ref. 35844], Burton & Lea 2019:97 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:221 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:134 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Psettichthys melanostictus Girard 1854. Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae. Distribution: Northeastern Pacific: southeastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (U.S.A.) south to southern California (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.