tanakae, Lycodes Jordan [D. S.] & Thompson [W. F.] 1914:299, Pl. 37 (fig. 2) [Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 6 (no. 4); ref. 2543] Noto, Hondo, Japan. Holotype (unique): FMNH 57068 [ex CM 6004]. Type catalog: Henn 1928:98 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:54 [ref. 12367]. The spelling tanakae is acceptable; early workers almost certainly Latinized the name first, and then added an 'e' (Art. 31.1.1) [WNE, 12 Mar. 2012] -- we now suggest using tanakae.. •Valid as Lycodes tanakae Jordan & Thompson 1914 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:160 [ref. 7348] as tanakae, Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041] as tanakai, Toyoshima in Amaoka et al. 1983:261, 330 [ref. 8379] as tanakae, Toyoshima in Masuda et al. 1984:307 [ref. 6441], Toyoshima 1985:193 [ref. 5722], Anderson 1994:119 [ref. 21438] as tanakae, Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:12 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:1038 [ref. 25182] as tanakai, Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:37 [ref. 25650], Nakabo 2002:1038 [ref. 26193] as tanakai, Choi et al. 2003:375, 640 [ref. 26218] as tanakai, Anderson & Fedorov 2004:30 [ref. 27603], Kim et al. 2006:278 [ref. 29191], Nazarkin 2010:603 [ref. 31019], Shinohara et al. 2011:52 [ref. 31715], Balushkin et al. 2011:1013 [ref. 32449], Nazarkin et al. 2014:177 [ref. 33213], Shinohara et al. 2014:266 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:422 [ref. 33547], Tohkairin et al. 2015:12 [ref. 35331], Kim et al. 2020:155 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:94 [ref. 37637], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:841 [ref. 38925]). Current status: Valid as Lycodes tanakae Jordan & Thompson 1914. Zoarcidae: Lycodinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan, Russia) and Sea of Okhotsk. Habitat: marine.