guttatus, Onus Collett [R.] 1890:105 [Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France v. 15 (no. 4/5); ref. 18024] Fayal, Azores, northeastern Atlantic, 38°34'N, 28°42'W, station 103, depth 15 meters. Syntypes: (2) MOM 0091-3719 [ex MOM 0091-3906] (now 1). Type catalog: Belloc 1949:16 [ref. 21544], Bailly et al. 1999:237 [ref. 24244]. •Synonym of Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Lloris et al. 2003:32 [ref. 27698]). •Valid as Gaidropsarus guttatus (Collett 1890) -- (Svetovidov 1973:319 [ref. 7169], Svetovidov 1986:8 [ref. 8033], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1986:700 [ref. 13676], Cohen 1990:527 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:49 [ref. 18936], Santos et al. 1997:60 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:70 [ref. 24952], Bailly et al. 1999:237 [ref. 24244], Francisco et al. 2014:475 [ref. 35447], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2022 [ref. 34586], Biscoito & Saldanha 2018:310 [ref. 36066]). •Synonym of Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Barros-García et al. 2017:8 [ref. 35659], Bañón et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39324], Barros-García et al. 2022:7 [ref. 39887]). Current status: Synonym of Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus 1758). Gaidropsaridae. Habitat: brackish, marine.