laetus, Centronotus Cope [E. D.] 1873:27 [4] [Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society v. 13 (for 17 Jan. 1873); ref. 929] Sitka or Unalaska, Alaska, U.S.A. Syntypes: ANSP 10504-05 (2, missing). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:140 [ref. 13621]. On p. 4 of separate. •Valid as Allopholis laeta (Cope 1873) -- (Yatsu 1981:178 [ref. 4814], Yatsu 1985:281 [ref. 5149], McAllister 1990:172 [ref. 14674]). •Valid as Pholis laeta (Cope 1873) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:256 [ref. 9277], Peden & Hughes 1984:293 [ref. 17445], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:39 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:779 [ref. 25968], Mecklenburg 2003:5 [ref. 27299], Nelson et al. 2004:160 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:149 [ref. 37547], Radchenko et al. 2010:737 [ref. 32451], Page et al. 2013:165 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:455 [ref. 33547], Pietsch & Orr 2015:63 [ref. 34694], Sweetser & Hilton 2016:1666 [ref. 35296], Kells et al. 2016:286 [ref. 35888], Love et al. 2021:190 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Pholis laeta (Cope 1873). Pholidae: Pholinae. Distribution: North Pacific: Aleutian Islands and north side of Alaska Peninsula to northern California (U.S.A.) and to Commander Islands and southeastern Kamchatka. Habitat: marine.