helvomaculatus, Sebastes Ayres [W. O.] 1859:26, Fig. 8 (p. 57) [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1) v. 2 (1858-1862); ref. 155] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Possible syntypes: BMNH 1863.10.9.7-10. Any types at CAS would have been lost in 1906. •Valid as Sebastes helvomaculatus Ayres 1859 -- (Chen 1971:14 [ref. 7668], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:141 [ref. 9277], Matarese et al. 1989:310 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:186 [ref. 14674], Orr et al. 2000:37 [ref. 24942], Shytko 2001:35 [ref. 26410], Love et al. 2002:187 [ref. 26216], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:349 [ref. 25968], Nelson et al. 2004:115 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:77 [ref. 37547], Butler et al. 2012:86 [ref. 40735], Page et al. 2013:118 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:32 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:138 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:59 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:108 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:180 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Sebastes helvomaculatus Ayres 1859. Scorpaenidae: Sebastinae. Distribution: Northeastern Pacific: western Gulf of Alaska south to Pacific coast of central Baja California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.