notatus, Porichthys Girard [C. F.] 1854:141 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 7; ref. 1818] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Holotype: USNM 520. •Valid as Porichthys notatus Girard 1854 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:108 [ref. 9277], Walker & Rosenblatt 1988:893 [ref. 9284], McAllister 1990:228 [ref. 14674], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:918 [ref. 22829], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:299 [ref. 25968], Nelson et al. 2004:95 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:58 [ref. 37547], Allen et al. 2006:632 [ref. 29004], Greenfield et al. 2008:674 [ref. 30046], Page et al. 2013:97 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:27 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:114 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:52 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:86 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:112 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Porichthys notatus Girard 1854. Batrachoididae: Porichthyinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern British Columbia (Canada) south to Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico); absent from Gulf of California (Mexico). Introduced in Australia. Habitat: marine.