macrochir, Sebastes Günther [A.] 1877:434 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 20 (no. 119) (art. 56); ref. 2009] Inland Sea of Japan; off Enoshima, Japan, 345 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1879.5.14.184 (1), 1879.5.14.664 (1), 1890.2.26.51-52 (2); MNHN 1890-0092 (1). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:20 [ref. 20738]. Also described as new in Günther 1880:65, Pl. 27 [ref. 2011]. •Valid as Sebastolobus macrochir (Günther 1877) -- (Kanayama in Amaoka et al. 1983:153, 213, 279, 336 [ref. 8379], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:315 [ref. 6441], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:89 [ref. 15964], Kim & Lee 1993:471 [ref. 39487], Shinohara & Amaoka 1993:395 [ref. 22466], Shinohara et al. 1996:175 [ref. 26605], Kim & Biryukov 1998:151 [ref. 24671], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:9 [ref. 24670], Orr et al. 2000:21 [ref. 24942], Nakabo 2000:570 [ref. 25086], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:26 [ref. 25650], Love et al. 2002:119 [ref. 26216], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:348 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:570 [ref. 26001], Parin et al. 2002:S64 [ref. 28300], Choi et al. 2003:243, 564 [ref. 26218], Fedorov et al. 2003:61 [ref. 27579], Nelson et al. 2004:116 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:81 [ref. 37547], Butler et al. 2012:144 [ref. 40735], Maslenikov et al. 2013:10 [ref. 37947], Page et al. 2013:119 [ref. 32708], Shinohara et al. 2014:246 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:224 [ref. 33547], Tohkairin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 35331], Kells et al. 2016:349 [ref. 35888], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:859 [ref. 38925], Love et al. 2021:113 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:181 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Sebastolobus macrochir (Günther 1877). Scorpaenidae: Sebastolobinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan, Russia), Sea of Okhotsk and Kuril Islands north to Bering Sea, east to Aleutian Islands (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.