Solea fasciata Basilewsky, 1855

Voronina, Elena P. & Volkova, Galina A., 2019, Annotated catalogue of type specimens of flatfishes (Osteichthyes: Pleuronectiformes) in the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, Zootaxa 4695 (3), pp. 253-282 : 280-281

Solea fasciata Basilewsky, 1855

Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Natur. Moscou, 10: 261

Current status: Uncertain

Type: ZIN 5273 Shantung [Shandong], China. Lost in Second World War .

No evidence exists that type specimens of 13 species and subspecies described from Russian waters were ever deposited in the ZIN collection. Among these are: Pleuronectes glacialis Pallas, 1776 from the Kara Bay, Arctic Ocean; Pleuronectes asper Pallas, 1814 , Pleuronectes cicatricosus Pallas, 1814 , Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus Pallas, 1814 and Pleuronectes stellatus Pallas, 1814 from the Far East Seas; Pleuronectes luscus Pallas, 1814 , Pleuronectes maeoticus Pallas, 1814 and Pleuronectes nasutus Pallas, 1814 from the Black Sea; Glyptocephalus ostroumowi Pavlenko, 1910 (5 specimens) and Limanda angustirostris var. maculosa Pavlenko, 1910 (2 specimens) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan; Pleuronectes flesus nat. caninensis Suvorov, 1929 (14 specimens) and Pleuronectes glacialis nat. caninensis Suvorov, 1929 (19 specimens) from Cheshskaya Bay, Barents Sea, and Liopsetta glacialis knipowitschi Essipov, 1939 from the Kara Sea.