hemilepidotus, Cottus Tilesius [W. G. von] 1811:262 [Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Sankt Pétersbourg (5e Série) v. 3; ref. 4408] Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea, Alaska, U.S.A. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-7155 (1) Kamchatka. •Valid as Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus (Tilesius 1811) -- (Bolin 1944:17 [ref. 6379], Peden 1979:24 [ref. 24080], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:170 [ref. 9277], Matarese et al. 1989:374 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:197 [ref. 14674], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:27 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:435 [ref. 25968], Parin et al. 2002:S75 [ref. 28300], Tokranov et al. 2003:300 [ref. 26972], Nelson et al. 2004:120 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:87 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:123 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:250 [ref. 33547], Pietsch & Orr 2015:40 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:172 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:66 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:129 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus (Tilesius 1811). Agonidae: Hemitripterinae. Distribution: North Pacific: southeastern Kamchatka (Russia) north to southern Bering Sea, Aleutian and Commander Islands; then south to central California (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.