variegatus, Pleuronectes Donovan [E.] 1808:3 unnum. pp., Pl. 117 [The natural history of British fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates.; ref. 17408] England. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Microchirus variegatus (Donovan 1808) -- (Torchio 1973:632 [ref. 6892], Quéro et al. in Whitehead et al. 1986:1316 [ref. 13677], Desoutter 1990:1042 [ref. 18967], Desoutter 1994:217 [ref. 22326], Evseenko 1998:61 [ref. 23643], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:153 [ref. 26753], Fricke et al. 2007:116 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:191 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:74 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:548 [ref. 33547], Desoutter-Meniger & Munroe in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3020 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:90 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:561 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:193 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36864], Kovačić et al. 2020:28 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:97 [ref. 38887], Kovačić et al. 2021:50 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:233 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Microchirus variegatus (Donovan 1808). Soleidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Senegal, including Madeira. Habitat: marine.