polaris, Blennius Sabine [E.] 1824:212 [ccxii] [A supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry's voyage; ref. 18649] North Georgia, Boothia Peninsula, Northwest Territories, Canada. No types known. •Valid as Lycodes polaris (Sabine 1824) -- (Andriashev 1973:545 [ref. 9214], Andriashev in Whitehead et al. 1986:1142 [ref. 13677], Scott & Scott 1988:409 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:161 [ref. 14674], Anderson 1994:119 [ref. 21438], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:37 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:710 [ref. 25968], Anderson & Fedorov 2004:28 [ref. 27603], Nelson et al. 2004:158 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:143 [ref. 37547], Møller et al. 2010:62 [ref. 31169], Balushkin et al. 2011:1006 [ref. 32449], Page et al. 2013:163 [ref. 32708], Dolgov 2013:920 [ref. 33112], Mecklenburg et al. 2014:144, 145 [ref. 33463], Parin et al. 2014:418 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:165 [ref. 34033], Afonso et al. 2016:66, 207 [ref. 36199], Kells et al. 2016:274 [ref. 35888], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:176 [ref. 34440] see remarks, Dolgov et al. 2018:214 [ref. 41055], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36370], Smirnova et al. 2019:491 [ref. 36948], Love et al. 2021:184 [ref. 39279], Chernova et al. 2022:8 [ref. 39177], Page et al. 2023:213 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lycodes polaris (Sabine 1824). Zoarcidae: Lycodinae. Distribution: Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic and North Pacific: nearly circumpolar. Habitat: marine.