raninus, Blennius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:258 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Lakes of Sweden. Probably the type: ZMUU Linn. Coll. 181 (1). Linnaeus specimens: LS 37 (left half-skin). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:41 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1985:38 [ref. 20705], Wheeler 1991:166 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Raniceps raninus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Svetovidov 1973:315 [ref. 7169], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1986:707 [ref. 13676], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:73 [ref. 18936], Fricke 2007:26 [ref. 30577], Carneiro et al. 2019:143 [ref. 37250], Iglésias et al. 2019:280 [ref. 37098], Iglésias et al. 2020:292 [ref. 37987], Bañón & Maño 2021:59 [ref. 38883]). Current status: Valid as Raniceps raninus (Linnaeus 1758). Ranicipitidae. Distribution: Baltic Sea; North Sea; northeastern Atlantic. Habitat: brackish, marine.