Taractes asper Lowe, 1843

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 158

Taractes asper Lowe, 1843 .

Flathead Pomfret or Rough Pomfret. To more than 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984) to Gulf of Alaska off Kodiak Island (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern California (31°20’N, 121°10’W) ( Parin and Scherbachev 1998) to Chile ( Pequeño 1997). Oceanic, primarily pelagic ( Mead 1972); depth: surface to about 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max. Roberts et al. 2015).