villosa, Clupea Müller [O. F.] (ex Olafsen) 1776:50 [Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium.; ref. 17808] Iceland. No types known. •Valid as Mallotus villosus (Müller 1776) -- (Berg 1948:451 [ref. 12882], McAllister 1963:38 [ref. 8075], Kljukanov & McAllister 1973:159 [ref. 7178], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:81 [ref. 9277], McAllister in Whitehead et al. 1984:400 [ref. 13675], Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:33 [ref. 6441], Robins & Ray 1986:77 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:145 [ref. 25518], Matarese et al. 1989:77 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:77 [ref. 14674], Nielsen & Schwägermann in Okamura et al. 1995:87 [ref. 22531], Zhu 1995:13 [ref. 25213], Chereshnev 1996:602 [ref. 24659], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:733 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva 1998:51 [ref. 23573], Nakabo 2000:295 [ref. 25086], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:19 [ref. 25650], Pietsch et al. 2001:141 [ref. 25688], Nakabo 2002:295 [ref. 26001], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:163 [ref. 26158], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:171 [ref. 25968], Choi et al. 2003:190, 527 [ref. 26218] as villosa, Nelson et al. 2004:85 [ref. 27807], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:128 [ref. 28183], Love et al. 2005:33 [ref. 37547], Møller et al. 2010:27 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:118 [ref. 31212] with comments, Page et al. 2013:86 [ref. 32708], Dolgov 2013:915 [ref. 33112], Parin et al. 2014:115 [ref. 33547] subspecies villosus, Pietsch & Orr 2015:20 [ref. 34694], Tohkairin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 35331], Afonso et al. 2016:17, 219 [ref. 36199], Dyldin & Orlov 2016:674 [ref. 34853], Kells et al. 2016:96 [ref. 35888], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:80 [ref. 36370], Simian et al. 2022:374 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:84 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Mallotus villosus (Müller 1776). Osmeridae. Distribution: Circumpolar in Northern Hemisphere [when treated as one species]. Habitat: marine.