mentella, Sebastes Travin [V. I.] 1951:743 [3], Fig. 1b [Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. A (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS), Leningrad new series, v. 77; ref. 12925] Medvezhinskii Banks (Bear Island Banks), Barents Sea, depth 200+ meters. Syntypes: (100) whereabouts unknown. On p. 3 of English translation. •Valid as Sebastes mentella Travin 1951 -- (Blanc & Hureau 1973:584 [ref. 7218], Hureau & Litvinenko in Whitehead et al. 1986:1226 [ref. 13677], Kenchington 1986:783 [ref. 11433], Robins & Ray 1986:277 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:483 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:188 [ref. 14674], Ishida in Okamura et al. 1995:152 [ref. 22531], Desrosiers et al. 1999:267 [ref. 24220], Parin et al. 2002:S62 [ref. 28300], Moore et al. 2003:222 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:115 [ref. 27807], Møller et al. 2010:51 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:118 [ref. 32708], Dolgov 2013:918 [ref. 33112], Parin et al. 2014:217 [ref. 33547], Afonso et al. 2016:40, 276 [ref. 36199], Dolgov et al. 2018:111 [ref. 41055], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:175 [ref. 36370], Carneiro et al. 2019:229 [ref. 37250], Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:180 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Sebastes mentella Travin 1951. Scorpaenidae: Sebastinae. Distribution: North Atlantic and adjacent Arctic Ocean, including Barents Sea, Spitsbergen. Habitat: marine.