poutassou, Merlangus Risso [A.] 1827:227 [Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale v. 3; ref. 3757] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Spelled potassoa by Düben & Koren 1846. •Valid as Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Svetovidov 1973:308 [ref. 7169], Ehrich 1983:136 [ref. 37253], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1986:689 [ref. 13676], Scott & Scott 1988:283 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:118 [ref. 14674], Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936], Endo in Okamura et al. 1995:115 [ref. 22531], Santos et al. 1997:62 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:71 [ref. 24952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26753], Iwamoto & Cohen 2003:1024 [ref. 27011], Moore et al. 2003:213 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:94 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:25 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:26 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:64 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:57 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:29 [ref. 36649], Møller et al. 2010:41 [ref. 31169], Page et al. 2013:94 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:177 [ref. 33547], Afonso et al. 2016:38, 223 [ref. 36199], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:156 [ref. 36370], Martins & Carneiro 2018:42 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:143 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:45 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:18 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:59 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:28 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:29 [ref. 39014], Gus'kov et al. 2022:71 [ref. 39564], Page et al. 2023:103 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; northeastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Barents Sea south to Morocco; northwestern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.