stelleri, Hexagrammos Tilesius [W. G. von] 1810:335, Pl. 15 [Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Pétersbourg v. 2; ref. 12816] Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, Russia. No types known. •Valid as Hexagrammos stelleri Tilesius 1810 -- (Rutenberg 1962:39 [ref. 24028], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:156 [ref. 9277], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:320 [ref. 6441], Kendall & Vinter 1984:12 [ref. 26201], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:130 [ref. 15964], Matarese et al. 1989:358 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:191 [ref. 14674], Shinohara 1994:79 [ref. 21519], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:9 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:625 [ref. 25086], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:26 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:392 [ref. 25968], Zemnukhov et al. 2001:420 [ref. 25412], Nakabo 2002:625 [ref. 26001], Parin et al. 2002:S67 [ref. 28300], Mecklenburg & Eschmeyer 2003:4 [ref. 27292], Fedorov et al. 2003:63 [ref. 27579], Nelson et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:82 [ref. 37547], Mecklenburg et al. 2007:173 [ref. 29448], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:230 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:163 [ref. 34033], Pietsch & Orr 2015:37 [ref. 34694], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:45 [ref. 34440], Kells et al. 2016:158 [ref. 35888], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:61 [ref. 35138], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:182 [ref. 36370], Dyldin et al. 2021:60 [ref. 38804], Love et al. 2021:115 [ref. 39279], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:37 [ref. 38972], Page et al. 2023:183 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Hexagrammos stelleri Tilesius 1810. Hexagrammidae: Hexagramminae. Distribution: North Pacific and adjacent Arctic: Sea of Japan north to Bering sea and Chukchi Sea, then south to Washington (U.S.A.). Habitat: brackish, marine.