Citharichthys sordidus (Girard, 1854)

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 : 216

Citharichthys sordidus (Girard, 1854) .

Pacific Sanddab. To 41 cm (16 in) TL ( Kramer et al. 1995), reported to 48 cm (18.9 in) TL (Don Pearson, pers. comm. to M.L.). Holiday Beach, Kodiak Island, western Gulf of Alaska (57°42’N, 152°28’W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) to Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972). Records from south-eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands are in error or not verifiable (Mecklenburg 2002). Also reported off Peru ( Zeballos Flor et al. 1998). Mostly benthic, but frequently ascends into water column (M.L., pers. obs.); depth: intertidal to about 581 m (1,906 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: City of San Diego).