vulgaris, Flesus Moreau [É.] 1881:299 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Moreau); ref. 3040] Non-type: MNHN 1898-0941 (1) [syntype of Desoutter et al.]. Type catalog: Desoutter et al. 2001:312 [ref. 25922] who do not treat as an unneeded new name and list a syntype (which is not a type). Apparently an unneeded new name for Pleuronectes flesus Linnaeus 1758 to avoid Strickland tautonymy. •Synonym of Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Nielsen 1973:626 [ref. 6885], Kottelat 1997:182 [ref. 22952], Dorofeeva 1998:159 [ref. 23573], Evseenko 2003:S66 [ref. 28535], Evseenko 2004:11 [ref. 27606], Momigliano et al. 2018:9 [ref. 35980]). Current status: Synonym of Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus 1758). Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.