americanus, Blennius Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:171 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] American seas. No types known. •Valid as Macrozoarces americanus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:237 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:412 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:156 [ref. 14674], Balushkin et al. 2011:952 [ref. 32449]). •Valid as Zoarces americanus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Anderson 1994:120 [ref. 21438], Klein-MacPhee & Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:470 [ref. 26158], Anderson & Fedorov 2004:2 [ref. 27603], Nelson et al. 2004:158 [ref. 27807], Chereshev et al. 2007:555 [ref. 29371], Voskoboinikova et al. 2010:704 [ref. 31095], Page et al. 2013:163 [ref. 32708], Afonso et al. 2016:68, 294 [ref. 36199], Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:213 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Zoarces americanus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Zoarcidae: Zoarcinae. Distribution: Northwestern Atlantic: Labrador (Canada) southward. Habitat: marine.