azevia, Solea de Brito Capello [F.] 1867:166 [Jornal do Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa v. 1 (no. 2); ref. 14041] Lisbon/Lisboa, Portugal; Gibraltar; Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands; Bilbao, northeastern Atlantic; Barcelona, Spain, western Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-4850 [or 4805] (1) Lisbon, ZMB 6456 (1) Lisbon. Type catalog: Desoutter et al. 2001:324 [ref. 25922]. •Synonym of Microchirus theophila (Risso 1810) -- (Desoutter 1990:1042 [ref. 18967]). •Valid as Microchirus azevia (de Brito Capello 1867) -- (Torchio 1973:633 [ref. 6892], Quéro et al. in Whitehead et al. 1986:1314 [ref. 13677], Desoutter 1994:232 [ref. 22326], Desoutter et al. 2001:324 [ref. 25922], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:152 [ref. 26753], Fricke et al. 2007:115 [ref. 29533], Desoutter-Meniger & Munroe in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3015 [ref. 34618] dated 1868, Martins & Carneiro 2018:88 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:192 [ref. 37250], Bañón & Maño 2021:97 [ref. 38887], Kovačić et al. 2021:49 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Microchirus azevia (de Brito Capello 1867). Soleidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Galicia (Spain) south to Senegal, including Madeira; strays to British Isles. Habitat: marine.