Species that contain: Pleurogrammus and azonus [ 2 ] records

azonus, Pleurogrammus Jordan [D. S.] & Metz [C. W.] 1913:47, Pl. 8 (fig. 2) [Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 6 (no. 1); ref. 2490] Namp'o [Chinnampo], northwestern Korea. Holotype (unique): FMNH 55796 [ex CM 4558]. Type catalog: Henn 1928:93 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:67 [ref. 12367]. May be a subspecies or junior synonym of P. monopterygius (Mecklenburg & Eschmeyer 2003:6 [ref. 27292]). •Synonym of Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Pallas 1810) -- (Kendall & Vinter 1984:26 [ref. 26201], Nelson 1994:320 [ref. 26204], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:391 [ref. 25968]). •Valid as Pleurogrammus azonus Jordan & Metz 1913 -- (Rutenberg 1962:67 [ref. 24028], Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983:281, 337 [ref. 8379], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:321 [ref. 6441], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:134 [ref. 15964], Shinohara 1994:79 [ref. 21519], Shinohara & Amaoka 1994 [ref. 21504], Kubota & Tsukada 1996:56 [ref. 24966], Tokranov 1998:425 [ref. 24679], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:9 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:624 [ref. 25086], Youn & Kim 2000:252, 572 [ref. 25178], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:26 [ref. 25650], Nakabo 2002:624 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:261 [ref. 26218], Parin et al. 2002:S67 [ref. 28300], Mecklenburg & Eschmeyer 2003:6 [ref. 27292], Crow et al. 2004:992 [ref. 27948], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:231 [ref. 33547], Tohkairin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 35331], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:61 [ref. 35138], Kim et al. 2020:99 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:88 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:60 [ref. 38804], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:38 [ref. 38972]). Current status: Valid as Pleurogrammus azonus Jordan & Metz 1913. Hexagrammidae: Pleurogramminae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: southern Okhotsk Sea and Pacific off northern Kuril Islands to Sea of Japan and Yellow Sea (China, Korea, Japan, Russia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

katsukii, Stellistius Jordan [D. S.] & Tanaka [S.] 1927:389, Pl. 34 (fig. 3) [Annals of the Carnegie Museum v. 17 (nos 3-4) (12); ref. 2537] off Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan, 42°21'N, 140°59'E. Holotype (unique): FMNH 59186 [ex CM 8329]. Type catalog: Henn 1928:93 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:81 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Stellistius katsukii Jordan & Tanaka 1927 -- (Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:321 [ref. 6441]). •Synonym of Pleurogrammus azonus Jordan & Metz 1913 -- (Rutenberg 1962:67 [ref. 24028] with question, Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:134 [ref. 15964], Shinohara & Amaoka 1994 [ref. 21504], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:26 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg & Eschmeyer 2003:6 [ref. 27292], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:61 [ref. 35138]). Current status: Synonym of Pleurogrammus azonus Jordan & Metz 1913. Hexagrammidae: Pleurogramminae. Habitat: marine.