otakii, Hexagrammos Jordan [D. S.] & Starks [E. C.] 1895:800, Pl. 77 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) v. 5; ref. 2522] Tokyo market, Japan. Lectotype: CAS-SU 3704 (with "drawn" label). Paralectotypes: (3) ?BMNH 1905.2.4.338 (1), CAS-SU 3704 (2?). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:125 [ref. 12291]. Lectotype established (as figured specimen) in caption to Pl. 281, p. 3289 in Jordan & Evermann 1900 [ref. 2446] if figured specimen is identifiable. •Valid as Hexagrammos otakii Jordan & Starks 1895 -- (Rutenberg 1962:47 [ref. 24028], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:320 [ref. 6441], Kendall & Vinter 1984:11 [ref. 26201], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:125 [ref. 15964], Shinohara 1994:79 [ref. 21519], Shinohara et al. 1996:175 [ref. 26605], Cheng & Zhou 1997:426 [ref. 26385], Nakabo 2000:625 [ref. 25086], Balanov et al. 2001:768 [ref. 25917], Rutenko & Ivankov 2001:564 [ref. 25621], Shimizu 2001:27 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:295 [ref. 26566], Nakabo 2002:625 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:261, 572 [ref. 26218], Parin et al. 2002:S67 [ref. 28300], Mecklenburg & Eschmeyer 2003:4 [ref. 27292], Jang et al. 2003:120 [ref. 27681], Crow et al. 2004:992 [ref. 27948], Kolpakov et al. 2005:714 [ref. 28422], Parin et al. 2014:230 [ref. 33547], Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Kim et al. 2020:99 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:88 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:60 [ref. 38804], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:37 [ref. 38972]). Current status: Valid as Hexagrammos otakii Jordan & Starks 1895. Hexagrammidae: Hexagramminae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan and southern Okhotsk Sea (China, Korea, Japan, Russia). Habitat: marine.