veternus, Podothecus Jordan [D. S.] & Starks [E. C.] 1895:819, Pl. 89 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) v. 5; ref. 2522] Robin [Tyuleniy] Island, Terpeniya Bay, Sakhalin Island. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 4823. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:134 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Podothecus veternus Jordan & Starks 1895 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:337 [ref. 15964], Kanayama 1991:49 [ref. 19261], Sheiko 1993:81 [ref. 21227], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:10 [ref. 24670], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:30 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:542 [ref. 25968], Choi et al. 2003:273, 582 [ref. 26218], Parin et al. 2002:S101 [ref. 28300], Fedorov et al. 2003:91 [ref. 27579], Sheiko & Mecklenburg 2004:14 [ref. 27591], Love et al. 2005:98 [ref. 37547], Mecklenburg et al. 2007:177 [ref. 29448], Sheiko & Fedorov 2010:65 [ref. 38118], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:125 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:126 [32708], Shinohara et al. 2014:253 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:295 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:164 [ref. 34033], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:122 [ref. 34440], Kells et al. 2016:204 [ref. 35888], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:263 [ref. 36370], Love et al. 2021:132 [ref. 39279], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:57 [ref. 38972], Page et al. 2023:188 [ref. 40505], Solomatov et al. 2024:[6] [ref. 40960]). Current status: Valid as Podothecus veternus Jordan & Starks 1895. Agonidae: Agoninae. Distribution: North Pacific and adjacent Arctic Region: Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk north to northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea. Habitat: marine.