tertius, Sebastes Barsukov [V. V.] & Chen [L.-C.] 1978:202 [186], Fig. 4 [Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 18 (no. 2); ref. 7010] Nagasaki, Japan. Holotype: ZIN 22696. Paratypes: ZIN 43595 [ex ZIN 8625] (3), 43366 [ex ZIN 22698] (1), 23085 (1). Non-type material at CAS, SDSC, SIO, UMMZ, ZIN. On p. 186 of English translation. •Valid as Sebastes tertius Barsukov & Chen 1978 -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:31 [ref. 15964], Shytko 2001:75 [ref. 26410]). •Valid as Sebastiscus tertius (Barsukov & Chen 1978) -- (Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:313 [ref. 6441], Kim & Lee 1993:467 [ref. 39487], Motomura & Iwatsuki 1997:131 [ref. 23963], Poss 1999:2347 [ref. 24796], Nakabo 2000:585 [ref. 25086], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:67 [ref. 25480], Han et al. 2001:63 [ref. 25336], Katoh & Tokimura 2001:247 [ref. 25542], Shinohara et al. 2001:313 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:585 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:243, 565 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:425 [ref. 28370], Morishita et al. 2018:[1] [ref. 35907], Kim et al. 2020:93 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:44 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Sebastiscus tertius (Barsukov & Chen 1978). Scorpaenidae: Sebastinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Taiwan north to Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.