maculosus, Oligocottus Girard [C. F.] 1856:133 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 8; ref. 1809] Tomales Bay; San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Syntypes: MCZ 13641 (2); USNM 297 (4, not found in 1980), 298 (6). Oligocottus alaskanus Miles 1918:93 was a lapsus calami for Oligocottus maculosus (Bolin 1944:65 [ref. 6379]). •Valid as Oligocottus maculosus Girard 1856 -- (Herrera 1896:64 [ref. 39336], Bolin 1944:65 [ref. 6379], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:178 [ref. 9277], Yabe in Masuda et al. 1984:328 [ref. 6441], Matarese et al. 1989:430 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:201 [ref. 14674], Nakabo 2000:646 [ref. 25086], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:500 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:646, 1526 [ref. 26001], Parin et al. 2002:S83 [ref. 28300], Nelson et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:90 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:124 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:267 [ref. 33547], Pietsch & Orr 2015:43 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:186 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:67 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:124 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:186 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Oligocottus maculosus Girard 1856. Psychrolutidae. Distribution: Northeastern Pacific: southeastern Bering Sea south to southern California (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.