Malacocottus Bean [T. H.] 1890:42 Masc. Malacocottus zonurus Bean 1890. Type by monotypy. Misspelled Malacottus in Zoological Record for 1890. •Valid as Malacocottus Bean 1890 -- (Watanabe 1960:180 [ref. 11959], Nelson 1982:1473 [ref. 5470], Washington et al. 1984:444 [ref. 13660], Yabe in Masuda et al. 1984:330 [ref. 6441], Yabe 1985:122 [ref. 11522], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:270 [ref. 15964], Shinohara et al. 1992 [ref. 19776], Jackson & Nelson 1998:1354 [ref. 23806], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:514 [ref. 25968], Parin et al. 2002:S94 [ref. 28300], Shinohara et al. 2011:46 [ref. 31715], Parin et al. 2014:301 [ref. 33547], Stevenson 2015:22 [ref. 33680], Pietsch & Orr 2015:50 [ref. 34694], Balanov et al. 2022: 119 [109] [ref. 39284]). Current status: Valid as Malacocottus Bean 1890. Psychrolutidae.