lucerna, Trigla Linnaeus [C.] 1758:301 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Northern Ocean. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.16 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:239 [ref. 13434]. Species epithet is apparently a noun and should not decline. •Valid as Trigla lucerna Linnaeus 1758 -- (Blanc & Hureau 1973:586 [ref. 7218], Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:1235 [ref. 13677], Caputo & Sorice 1999:81 [ref. 25260], Golani 2005:33 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:28 [ref. 30577], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:170 [ref. 31251]). •Valid as Chelidonichthys lucernus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Richards 1968:94 [ref. 7911], Richards & Saksena 1990:682 [ref. 17757], Fricke et al. 2007:78 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:82 [ref. 30517], Fricke 2008:25 [ref. 30182]). •Valid as Chelidonichthys lucerna (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:73 [ref. 26753], Parin et al. 2002:S65 [ref. 28300], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:39 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:225 [ref. 33547], Richards 2016:2306 [ref. 35044], Martins & Carneiro 2018:113 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:555 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:235 [ref. 37250], Bariche & Fricke 2020:108 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:44 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:9 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:68 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:37 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:83 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:293 [ref. 39448] misidentified, Niță et al. 2022:135 [ref. 40471]). Current status: Valid as Chelidonichthys lucerna (Linnaeus 1758). Triglidae: Triglinae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Mauritania, including Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: brackish, marine.