paradoxus, Psychrolutes Günther [A.] 1861:516 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Gulf of Georgia, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1860.8.24.18. •Valid as Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther 1861 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:180 [ref. 9277], Yabe in Masuda et al. 1984:330 [ref. 6441], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:263 [ref. 15964], Matarese et al. 1989:436 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:204 [ref. 14674], Fricke 1990:407 [ref. 15492], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:10 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:653 [ref. 25086], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:30 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:524 [ref. 25968], Sokolovsky & Sokolovskaya 2001:425 [ref. 25414], Nakabo 2002:653 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:276, 5846 [ref. 26218], Parin et al. 2002:S94 [ref. 28300], Fedorov et al. 2003:87 [ref. 27579], Nelson et al. 2004:123 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:95 [ref. 37547], Shinohara et al. 2011:46 [ref. 31715], Maslenikov et al. 2013:12 [ref. 37947], Page et al. 2013:126 [ref. 32708], Shinohara et al. 2014:254 [ref. 33330], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:164 [ref. 34033], Pietsch & Orr 2015:51 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:208 [ref. 35888], Kim et al. 2020:107 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:91 [ref. 37637], Love et al. 2021:125 [ref. 39279], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:55 [ref. 38972], Page et al. 2023:187 [ref. 40505], Negoro & Motomura 2024:3 [ref. 41284]). Current status: Valid as Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther 1861. Psychrolutidae. Distribution: North Pacific: Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk north to northern Bering Sea, then south to Puget Sound (Washington, U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.