guttulatus, Pleuronichthys Girard [C. F.] 1856:137 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 8; ref. 1809] Tomales Bay, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard 1856) -- (Herrera 1896:70 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Hypsopsetta guttulatus (Girard 1856) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:289 [ref. 9277], Sakamoto 1984:209 [ref. 5273], Swift et al. 1993:132 [ref. 22379], Sommer in Fischer et al. 1995:1384 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:257 [ref. 24545], Evseenko 1998:60 [ref. 23643], Fuller et al. 1999:482 [ref. 25838], Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000:76 [ref. 24940], Evseenko 2004:7 [ref. 27606], Kells et al. 2016:330 [ref. 35888] as H. guttulata). •Valid as Pleuronichthys guttulatus Girard 1856 -- (Cooper & Chapleau 1998:711 [ref. 26711], Nelson et al. 2004:181 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:177 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:187 [ref. 32708], Vinnikov et al. 2018:159 [ref. 35844], Burton & Lea 2019:97 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:221 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Pleuronichthys guttulatus Girard 1856. Pleuronectidae: Pleuronichthyinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: northern California (U.S.A.) south to southern tip of Baja California Sur (Mexico); isolated population in Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: brackish, marine.