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.