Eleginus Fischer [G.] 1813:252 Masc. Gadus nawaga Walbaum 1792. Type by monotypy. See Gill 1891:302 [ref. 1734]. Not Eleginus Cuvier 1830. •Should be synonymized with Microgadus Gill 1865 -- (Carr et al. 1999:25 [ref. 24219]). •Valid as Eleginus Fischer 1813 -- (Svetovidov 1973:305 [ref. 7169], Fahay & Markle 1984:266 [ref. 13653], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:92 [ref. 6441], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1986:684 [ref. 13676], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:33 [ref. 18936], Bogutskaya 1998:109 [ref. 23589], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:288 [ref. 25968], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:167 [ref. 28183] dating to 1830, Parin et al. 2014:172 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:39 [ref. 34440], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:54 [ref. 35138], Stroganov et al. 2023:1147 [1015] [ref. 40642]). Current status: Valid as Eleginus Fischer 1813. Gadidae.