Species that contain: Micromesistius and poutassou [ 6 ] records

albus, Merlangus Yarrell [W.] 1841:247, Fig. [A History of British fishes. Second edition. v. 2; ref. 17751] Off Britain. No types known. •Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Svetovidov 1973:308 [ref. 7169], Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586]). Current status: Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Habitat: marine.

communis, Merlangus Costa [O. G.] 1844:Gadoides p. 7 [Fauna del regno di Napoli Part 1; ref. 976] [Napoli] Naples, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. •Synonym of Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Svetovidov 1973:318 [ref. 7169], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:50 [ref. 18936]). •Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Svetovidov 1973:308 [ref. 7169], Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586]). Current status: Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Habitat: marine.

melanostomus, Gadus Nilsson [S.] 1855:556 [Skandinavisk fauna; ref. 3205] •Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586]). Current status: Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Habitat: marine.

pertusus, Merlangus Cocco [A.] 1829:140 [Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per La Sicilia Anno 7, v. 26 (no. 77); ref. 857] Messina, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. •Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Svetovidov 1973:308 [ref. 7169], Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936] as pertusis, Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586] as pertusis). Current status: Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Habitat: marine.

poutassou, Merlangus Risso [A.] 1827:227 [Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale v. 3; ref. 3757] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Spelled potassoa by Düben & Koren 1846. •Valid as Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Svetovidov 1973:308 [ref. 7169], Ehrich 1983:136 [ref. 37253], Svetovidov in Whitehead et al. 1986:689 [ref. 13676], Scott & Scott 1988:283 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:118 [ref. 14674], Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936], Endo in Okamura et al. 1995:115 [ref. 22531], Santos et al. 1997:62 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:71 [ref. 24952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26753], Iwamoto & Cohen 2003:1024 [ref. 27011], Moore et al. 2003:213 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:94 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:25 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:26 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:64 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:57 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:29 [ref. 36649], Møller et al. 2010:41 [ref. 31169], Page et al. 2013:94 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:177 [ref. 33547], Afonso et al. 2016:38, 223 [ref. 36199], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:156 [ref. 36370], Martins & Carneiro 2018:42 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:143 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:45 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:18 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:59 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:28 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:29 [ref. 39014], Gus'kov et al. 2022:71 [ref. 39564], Page et al. 2023:103 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; northeastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Barents Sea south to Morocco; northwestern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

vernalis, Merlangus Risso [A.] 1827:228 [Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale v. 3; ref. 3757] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. •Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) -- (Svetovidov 1973:308 [ref. 7169], Cohen 1990:528 [ref. 15766], Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:61 [ref. 18936], Iwamoto & Cohen 2016:2033 [ref. 34586]). Current status: Synonym of Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827). Gadidae. Habitat: marine.