arcticus, Gymnogaster Brünnich [M. T.] 1788:408, Pl. B [Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrivter, Nye Samling af det v. 3; ref. 5131] Iceland. No types known. •Valid as Trachipterus arcticus (Brünnich 1788) -- (Palmer 1973:331 [ref. 7195], Palmer in Whitehead et al. 1986:730 [ref. 13676], Robins & Ray 1986:119 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:90 [ref. 23239], Santos et al. 1997:51 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:73 [ref. 24952] as articus, McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:690 [ref. 23897], Olney 2003:958 [ref. 27007], Moore et al. 2003:203 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:89 [ref. 27807], Møller et al. 2010:35 [ref. 31169], Savinykh & Baitalyuk 2011:581 [ref. 31580], Roberts 2012:55 [ref. 32187], Psomadakis et al. 2012:16 [ref. 33457], Page et al. 2013:91 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:162 [ref. 33547], Olney & Hartel 2016:1938 [ref. 34580], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:112 [ref. 36370] see remarks, Carneiro et al. 2019:128 [ref. 37250], Bañón & Maño 2021:57 [ref. 38883], Martin & Hilton 2021:307 [ref. 38678], Albano et al. 2022:24 [ref. 39781], Fermon et al. 2022:194 [ref. 39448] with question, Page et al. 2023:98 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Trachipterus arcticus (Brünnich 1788). Trachipteridae. Distribution: North Sea; western Maditerranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Norway south to South Africa; Indo-Pacific. Habitat: marine.