pulcherrimus, Stichaeus punctatus Taranetz [A. Ya.] 1935:96 [Vestnik Dal'nevostocnogo Filiala Akademii Nauk SSSR = Bulletin of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR No. 13 (1935); ref. 4339] Okhotsk Sea and Japan Sea. Syntypes: ZIN 18712-13 (5, 6), 18715 (3), 18718 (3), 18728 (3), 19126-27 (1, 8). Type catalog: Balushkin et al. 2012:120 [ref. 33656]. See Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604] for type information. •Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780), but a valid subspecies pulcherrimus Taranetz 1935 as described -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:56 [ref. 7348], Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041], Scott & Scott 1988:424 [ref. 25518], Lavrova 1990:52 [ref. 20302], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:12 [ref. 24670], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:39 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:209 [ref. 34440]). •Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780) -- (Parin et al. 2014:452 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780). Stichaeidae: Stichaeinae. Habitat: marine.