Species that contain: Stichaeus and punctatus [ 3 ] records

pulcherrimus, Stichaeus punctatus Taranetz [A. Ya.] 1935:96 [Vestnik Dal'nevostocnogo Filiala Akademii Nauk SSSR = Bulletin of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR No. 13 (1935); ref. 4339] Okhotsk Sea and Japan Sea. Syntypes: ZIN 18712-13 (5, 6), 18715 (3), 18718 (3), 18728 (3), 19126-27 (1, 8). Type catalog: Balushkin et al. 2012:120 [ref. 33656]. See Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604] for type information. •Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780), but a valid subspecies pulcherrimus Taranetz 1935 as described -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:56 [ref. 7348], Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041], Scott & Scott 1988:424 [ref. 25518], Lavrova 1990:52 [ref. 20302], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:12 [ref. 24670], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:39 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:209 [ref. 34440]). •Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780) -- (Parin et al. 2014:452 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780). Stichaeidae: Stichaeinae. Habitat: marine.

punctatus, Blennius Fabricius [O.] 1780:153 [Fauna groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis, etc.; ref. 17464] Western Greenland. No types known. Original spelling as Blennivs pvnctatvs; historical typeset, name equals punctatus. Two subspecies are recognized -- see Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604]. •Valid as Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780), subspecies punctatus -- (Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604], Page et al. 2013:164 [ref. 32708]). •Valid as Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780) [often as a subspecies] -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:56 [ref. 7348], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:253 [ref. 9277], Robins & Ray 1986:233 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:423 [ref. 25518], Matarese et al. 1989:501 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:167 [ref. 14674], Lavrova 1990:52 [ref. 20302], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:39 [ref. 25650], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:477 [ref. 26158], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:747 [ref. 25968], Fedorov et al. 2003:125 [ref. 27579], Nelson et al. 2004:159 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:148 [ref. 37547], Mecklenburg et al. 2007:180 [ref. 29448], Møller et al. 2010:66 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:129 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:452 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:165 [ref. 34033], Afonso et al. 2016:71, 284 [ref. 36199], Kells et al. 2016:284 [ref. 35888], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:208 [ref. 34440], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:390 [ref. 36370], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:848 [ref. 38925] with question, Love et al. 2021:189 [ref. 39279], Balanov et al. 2022:[7] [ref. 39152], Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776]). Current status: Valid as Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780). Stichaeidae: Stichaeinae. Distribution: Arctic Ocean and adjacent North Pacific and northwestern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

rothrocki, Stichaeus Bean [T. H.] 1881:146 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 4 (no. 210); ref. 223] Cape Lisburne, Lisburne Peninsula, Alaska, U.S.A., Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean. Lectotype: USNM 27573. Paralectotypes: (17) MCZ 35919 [ex USNM 27573] (2); USNM 27565 (not found in 1980), 27580 (8), 112750 [ex USNM 27573] (4). Type catalog: Springer & Anderson 1997:11-12 [ref. 22953]. Originally as Stichæus ? Rothrocki, but at end of account Bean placed the species in Notogrammus. Lectotype designation: Springer & Anderson 1997:11-12 [ref. 22953]. •Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780) -- (Mecklenburg et al. 2002:747 [ref. 25968], Mecklenburg & Sheiko 2004:6 [ref. 27604], Parin et al. 2014:452 [ref. 33547]). Current status: Synonym of Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius 1780). Stichaeidae: Stichaeinae. Habitat: marine.