asper, Pleuronectes Pallas [P. S.] 1814:425 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Sea between Kamchatka, Russia and Alaska, U.S.A. Syntypes: ZMB 7414 (1). Type catalog: Voronina & Volkova 2019:281 [ref. 37075] (no types at ZIN). Species epithet should be aspera when combined with Limanda (feminine gender). •Valid as Pleuronectes asper Pallas 1814 -- (Sakamoto 1984:209 [ref. 5273], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:120 [ref. 21500], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:14 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:1379 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1379 [ref. 26193], Shinohara et al. 2011:57 [ref. 31715], Shinohara et al. 2014:277 [ref. 33330], Tohkairin et al. 2015:14 [ref. 35331]). •Valid as Limanda aspera (Pallas 1814) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:290 [ref. 9277], Sakamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:352 [ref. 6441], Matarese et al. 1989:602 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:222 [ref. 14674], Kim & Youn 1994:115 [ref. 22286], Evseenko 1998:60 [ref. 23643], Cooper & Chapleau 1998:715 [ref. 26711], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:41 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:844 [ref. 25968], Choi et al. 2003:432, 684 [ref. 26218], Fedorov et al. 2003:138 [ref. 27579], Evseenko 2003:S64 [ref. 28535], Evseenko 2004:8 [ref. 27606], Nelson et al. 2004:181 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:175 [ref. 37547], Mecklenburg et al. 2007:183 [ref. 29448], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:186 [ref. 32708], Voronina & Chanet 2014:45 [ref. 33419], Parin et al. 2014:535 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:165 [ref. 34033], Pietsch & Orr 2015:69 [ref. 34694], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:229 [ref. 34440], Kells et al. 2016:330 [ref. 35888], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:196 [ref. 35257], Vinnikov et al. 2018:159 [ref. 35844], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:434 [ref. 36370], Dyldin et al. 2021:40 [ref. 38804], Love et al. 2021:219 [ref. 39279], Redin & Kartavtsev 2022:19 [ref. 39989], Tashiro 2022:85 [ref. 39012]). Current status: Valid as Limanda aspera (Pallas 1814). Pleuronectidae: Pleuronectinae. Distribution: North Pacific and adjacent Arctic. Habitat: marine.