octogrammus, Labrax Pallas [P. S.] 1814:283 [Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica v. 3; ref. 3351] Petropavlovsk, Avacha Bay, Kamchatka, Russia. Syntypes: ZMB 32046 (1, dry), others not found. Type catalog: Paepke & Fricke 1992:281 [ref. 19946]. •Valid as Hexagrammos octogrammus (Pallas 1814) -- (Rutenberg 1962:43 [ref. 24028], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:156 [ref. 9277], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:320 [ref. 6441], Kendall & Vinter 1984:12 [ref. 26201], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:127 [ref. 15964], Matarese et al. 1989:356 [ref. 26885], McAllister 1990:191 [ref. 14674], Shinohara 1994:79 [ref. 21519], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:9 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:625 [ref. 25086], Zemnukhov et al. 2001:420 [ref. 25412], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:26 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:393 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:625 [ref. 26001], Parin et al. 2002:S67 [ref. 28300], Choi et al. 2003:261, 571 [ref. 26218], Mecklenburg & Eschmeyer 2003:4 [ref. 27292], Fedorov et al. 2003:62 [ref. 27579] as Pallas 1810, Crow et al. 2004:992 [ref. 27948], Nelson et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:82 [ref. 37547], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:120 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:229 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:163 [ref. 34033], Kells et al. 2016:158 [ref. 35888], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:60 [ref. 35138], Dyldin et al. 2021:60 [ref. 38804], Love et al. 2021:115 [ref. 39279], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:37 [ref. 38972]). Current status: Valid as Hexagrammos octogrammus (Pallas 1814). Hexagrammidae: Hexagramminae. Distribution: North Pacific: Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk north to Bering Sea, then Aleutian-Commander chain south to northern British Columbia (Canada). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.