La passera pianuzza, Platichthys flesus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Nomi dialettali italiani - Liguria - Passua, Passona, Sola. Campania - Passara, Rummo, Passerella. Calabria - Passerino. Sicilia - Passira, Passaru, Linguata pianosa, Palaria steddara, Panti, Pianussa. Sardegna - Passaru. Puglia - Pasar, Passarello, Passerella. Veneto - Passarin, Lattesiol, Passara, Pansona.

Nomi comuni esteri - Spagnolo - Platixa, Platija, Platija europea, Plana d'Itàlia, Solla. Portoghese - Petruca, Solha, Solha das pedras patrúcia, Solha-das-pedras. Greco - Chamatída, Cheimara, Fasi. Francese - Flet, Flet d'Europe. Gaelico - Leadhbhóg. Inglese - Flounder, Baltic flounder, European flounder, River flounder, Butt, Fluke, Mud flounder, White fluke. Tedesco - Flunder, Butt, Butte, Elbbutt, Flinder, Flinger, Gemeine Flunder, Goldflunder, Graubutt, Sandbutt, Strombutt, Strufbutt, Struffbutt, Struvbutt, Wattbutt, Weserbutt. Olandese - Bot. Danese - Flynder, Skrubbe. Svedese - Flundra, Skrubba, Skrubbflundra, Skrubbskädda. Norvegese - Skrubbe. Faeroe - Ósaskrubba. Islanda - Flundra. Finnico - Kampela. Polacco - Flondra, Stornia. Repubblica Ceca - Platýs bradavicnatý. Repubblica Slovacca - Platesa malá. Rumeno - Cambula, Cambulă de liman. Bulgaro - Pisia. Russo - Baltiiskaya rechnaya kambala, Chernomorskaya kambala, Morskaja kambala, Rechnaja kambala. Albanese - Ushojze e zeze. Sloveno - Iverka, Jezik. Turco - Derepisi baligi, Derepisisi, Derepisisi baligi. Giapponese - Karei.

Pleuronectes flesus Linnaeus 1758. Systema Nat. ed. 10 v. 1 270. Status: nomenclatura originale, non valida. Opinioni: nomenclatura valida come "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, per Berg 1949:1185, Evseenko 1996:727; nomenclatura valida come "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Nielsen 1973:626, Sakamoto 1984:209, Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1304, Lelek 1987:314, McAllister 1990:223, Coad 1995:32, Chereshnev 1996:607, Coad 1996:86, Kottelat 1997:182, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761, Dorofeeva 1998:159, Evseenko 1998:60, Cooper & Chapleau 1998:716, Voronina 1999:612, Fricke 1999:51, Fuller et al. 1999:482, Bogutskaya et al. 2001:48, Hanel 2003:66, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11, Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:242. Catalogo: Wheeler 1958:244, Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:272-273. Località tipo: mari europei. Tipo: nessuno. Sintipi: BMNH 1853.11.12.132-134 [coll. Gronovius] (3, pelli), ?NRM 20 (1).

Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758). Systema Nat. ed. 10 v. 1 270. Status: nuova nomenclatura, valida.

Platichthys flesus flesus (Linnaeus, 1758). Systema Nat. ed. 10 v. 1 270. Status: nuova nomenclatura, non valida.

Pleuronectes passer Linnaeus 1758. Systema Nat. ed. 10 v. 1 271. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, per Berg 1949:1185; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Nielsen 1973:626, Kottelat 1997:182, Dorofeeva 1998:159, Fricke 1999:50, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Neotipo designato da Fricke 1999:52, ma ritirato in Fricke 2000:639. Località tipo: mari europei. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Pleuronectes flesoides Pontoppidan 1766. Dänischer Atlas, oder Beschreibung des Königreichs Dänemark, ... Kopenhagen & Hamburg. Dänischer Atlas 232 pp.; 188 Pl. 15. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2004:11. Compare anche a p. 420. Località tipo: Danimarca. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Pleuronectes roseus Shaw in Shaw & Nodder 1796. The Naturalist's Miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described from nature. London. Naturalist's Misc. unnumbered pages; Pl. 238. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Località tipo: fiume tamigi, Gran Bretagna. Tipo: Leverian Mus. (non cercato).

Pleuronectes luscus Pallas 1814. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones anatomen atque icones plurimorum. 3 vols. [1811-1814]. Petropoli. Zool. Rosso-Asiatica i-vii + 1-428 + index (I-CXXV); v. 3 427. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, ma valida sottospecie, per Berg 1949:1190; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Kottelat 1997:182; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), ma valida sottospecie, per Nielsen 1973:626, Sakamoto 1984:209, Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1305, Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761, Dorofeeva 1998:159, Voronina 1999:612, Bilecenoglu et al. 2002:151 datato al 1811, Evseenko 2003:S67, Evseenko 2004:11, Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:184. Type locality: Feodosiya, Crimea, Ucraina. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Pleuronectes flesus luscus Pallas 1814. Zool. Rosso-Asiatica v. 3 427. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida; vedere sopra.

Platichthys flesus luscus (Pallas, 1814). Zool. Rosso-Asiatica v. 3 427. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida; vedere sopra.

Platessa carnaria Brown 1830. Description of a new species of British fish. Edinb. J. Nat. Geogr. Sci. 99; v. 2 99 Pl. 2 (non 3). Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Località tipo: Prestonpans, Scozia, Gran Bretagna. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Platessa glabra Rathke 1837. Zur fauna der Krym. Mem. Acad. Sci. Sav. Etrang. St. Petersbourg 291-454, 771-774; v. 3 352. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, sottospecie "luscus" Pallas 1814, per Berg 1949:1190;  sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Kottelat  1997:182, Evseenko 2004:11; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), sottospecie "luscus" (Pallas 1814), per Evseenko 2003:S67. Località tipo: Kerch, Crimea. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Platessa flesus marmorata Nordmann 1840. Observations sur la fauna pontique. In: A. de Démidoff. Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée. Vol. III. Paris. Voyage Russie Mérid. 353-635; 534 Pl. 28 (fig. 1). Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), sottospecie "luscus" (Pallas 1814), per Nielsen 1973:626; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2004:11. Località tipo: sconosciuta. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Pleuronectes italicus Günther 1862. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii, Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Muesum. Cat. Fishes i-xxi + 1-534; v. 4 452. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Fondata su fonti di letteratura ed uno specimen. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), ma valida sottospecie, per Nielsen 1973:626, Sakamoto 1984:209, Dorofeeva 1998:160; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2004:11; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), sottospecie "luscus" (Pallas 1814), secondo Evseenko 2003:S67. Località tipo: Mediterraneo; Dalmazia [Croazia]. Tipo: nessuno. sintipi: BMNH 1842.6.7.3 (1).

Pleuronectes bogdanovii Sandeberg 1878. "Pleuronectes bogdanovii" descriptus. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 236-237; v. 53 236 Fig. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, ma valida sottospecie, per Berg 1949:1188; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), ma valida sottospecie, per Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761, Dorofeeva 1998:159; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Località tipo:mar bianco. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Platichthys flesus bogdanovi Sandberg, 1878. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou v. 53 236 Figs. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida; vedere sopra.

Flesus vulgaris Moreau 1881. Histoire naturelle des poissons de la France. v. 1: i-vii + 1-480; v. 2: 1-572; v. 3: 1-697. [Supplement in 1891: 1-144.] Hist. Poiss. France; v. 3 299. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Apparentemente nuovo nome non necessario per "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Nielsen 1973:626, Kottelat 1997:182, Dorofeeva 1998:159, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Catalogo: Desoutter et al. 2001:312, chi non tratta la nomenclatura come nuovo nome non necessario, lo cataloga come sintipo (non come tipo). Non tipo: MNHN 1898-0941 (1) [sintipo di Desoutter et al.].

Pleuronectes flesus trachurus Duncker 1892. Der Elbbutt, eine Verietät der Flunder. ("Pleuronectes flesus" L. var. "leiurus"). Schrift. Naturwiss. Ver. Schleswig-Holstein 275-291; v. 9 280, 291 Fig. 2. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, ma valida sottospecie, per Berg 1949:1186; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), ma valida sottospecie come da descrizione, secondo Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761, Dorofeeva 1998:159; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Nielsen 1973:626, Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Località tipo: bocca del fiume Trave Germany, mar Baltico. Tipo: nessuno. Sintipi: (molti) attuale collocazione ignota.

Platichthys flesus trachurus (Duncker, 1892). Schrift. Naturwiss. Ver. Schleswig-Holstein v. 9 280, 291 Fig. 2. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida; vedere sopra.

Pleuronectes flesus leiurus Duncker 1892. Schrift. Naturwiss. Ver. Schleswig-Holstein v. 9 280, 291 Fig. 1. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida. Opinioni: sinonimo di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, secondo Berg 1949:1185; sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Nielsen 1973:626, Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2003:S66, Evseenko 2004:11. Località tipo: fiume Elba a Hamburg, Germania. Tipo: non è noto nessun esemplare tipo.

Pleuronectes flesus baltica Suvorov, 1925. Status: nomenclatura infrasubspecifica, non valida.

Pleuronectes flesus septentrionalis Surorov, 1925. On the biology of the flatfish (*Pleuronectes flesus*) of Kola Bay. Ann. Inst. Experimental Agronomy 280-281; v. 3 280. Status: nomenclatura infrasubspecifica in Pleuronectidae, non valida. Opinioni: in sinonimia di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, ma valida sottospecie come da descrizione, per Berg 1932:5, Berg 1949:1189; in sinonimia di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), ma valida sottospecie come da descrizione, per Reshetnikov et al. 1997:761, Dorofeeva 1998:160; in sinonimia di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), secondo Evseenko 2003:S66. Località tipo: baia di Kola, mare di Barents, Russia. Tipo: nessun tipo allo ZIN.

Pleuronectes flesus caninensis Suvorov 1929. On the fish fauna of Cheshskaya Bay. Trudy Inst. Izuchen. Severa 101-132; No. 43 111. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida; nomenclatura infrasubspecifica. Opinioni: in sinonimia di "Pleuronectes flesus" Linnaeus 1758, sottospecie "septentrionalis" Suvorov 1925, per Berg 1949:1189; in sinonimia di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Kottelat 1997:182, Evseenko 2003:S67, Evseenko 2004:28. Località tipo: fiumi afferenti alla baia Cheshskaya, mare di Barents, Russia. Tipo: nessuno. Sintipi: (14) not at ZIN.

Pleuronectes flesus septentrionalis Berg 1932. Revision des formes de "Pleuronectes flesus". Notas Res., Inst. Esp. Oceanogr., Ser. II (Madrid) 1-7; No. 58 5 Fig. 3. Status: sinonimo junior, nomenclatura non valida; pubblicazione valida come sottospecie dell'infrasubspecifica "Pleuronectes flesus" natio "septentrionalis" Suvorov 1925. Opinioni:  sinonimo di "Platichthys flesus" (Linnaeus 1758), per Evseenko 2004:11. Dati presi dagli specimen 366-1,067. come museo è citato Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences. Località tipo: coste di Mourman e coste della penisola di Kanin. Tipo: nessuno. Sintipi: (molti) ZIN? 18.772.

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