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piscatorius, Lophius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:236 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Northeastern Atlantic [original: "in Oceano Europæo"]; localities include Bordeaux, France, Bay of Biscay; Marseille and Montpellier, France; Genoa, Rome, Naples and Venice, Italy; Lesbos Island, Greece; Syria. Syntypes: NRM 4553 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:228 [ref. 20707]. Lectotype or neotype fixation needed. Originally based on multiple species and at least 7 pre-Linnaean sources including Artedi 1738:63 [ref. 30578] and Artedi 1738:87 [ref. 30349] as Lophius ore cirroso; Rondelet 1554:363 [ref. 30354] as Rana piscatr(ix), Salviani 1558:140, Pl. (p. 139) [ref. 30229] as Rana piscatr(ix), Jonston 1649:37, Pl. 11 (fig. 8) [ref. 30579] as Rana marina sive piscatrix, Charleton 1668:130, 201 [ref. 30580] as Rana piscatrix, Willughby 1686:85 [ref. 30164] and Ray 1713:29 [ref. 30231] as Rana piscatrix. •Valid as Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:659 [ref. 7223], Caruso in Whitehead et al. 1986:1363 [ref. 13677], Santos et al. 1997:62 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:125 [ref. 24952], Porteiro et al. 1999:41 [ref. 24203], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:55 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:27 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:28 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:66 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:58 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:174 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:32 [ref. 36649], Møller et al. 2010:42 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:185 [ref. 33547], Bañón et al. 2016:318 [ref. 34397], Caruso 2016:2049 [ref. 34596], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:163 [ref. 36370], Martins & Carneiro 2018:103 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:212 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:50 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:34 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:62 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:29 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:62 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:300 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Distribution: North Atlantic: Greenland; Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Barents Sea and Iceland south to Mauritania, including Azores (Portugal). Habitat: brackish, marine.


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