curilus, Salmo Pallas [P. S.] 1814:351 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Rivers of Kuriles. Syntypes: ?NMW 79381 (1, dry), ?ZMB 8191 (dry). See Dorofeeva & Savvaitova 1998:37 [ref. 23574]. •Synonym of Salvelinus malma (Walbaum 1792) -- (Berg 1948:291 [ref. 12882], Okada 1961:328 [ref. 6363], La Rivers 1994:272 [ref. 23389], Gritsenko et al. 1998:196 [ref. 24673]). •Synonym of Salvelinus malma (Walbaum 1792), but a valid subspecies curilus -- (Nikiforov et al. 1997:330 [ref. 24694]). •Valid as Salvelinus curilus (Pallas 1814) -- (Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:20 [ref. 25650], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:46 [ref. 26178], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:162 [ref. 28183], Bogutskaya et al. 2008:348 [ref. 30085], Parin et al. 2014:139 [ref. 33547], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:681 [ref. 34853], Dyldin et al. 2020:84 [ref. 37569], Dyldin et al. 2021:29 [ref. 38804], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:70 [ref. 38158]). Current status: Valid as Salvelinus curilus (Pallas 1814). Salmonidae: Salmoninae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Kuril Islands to Sakhalin (Russia), Korea and Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.