spatula, Icelus Gilbert [C. H.] & Burke [C. V.] 1912:41, Figs. 3, 3a [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 30 (Doc. 754) (for 1910); ref. 1634] Off Avatcha Bay, Kamchatka, Russia, 52°47'20"N, 158°44'30"E, Albatross station 4794, depth 58-69 fathoms. Holotype: USNM 74367. Paratypes: CAS-SU 40931 (5), USNM 70904-05 (4, 4). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:130 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke 1912 -- (Neelov 1973:597 [ref. 7219], Nelson 1984:41 [ref. 5391], Fedorov in Whitehead et al. 1986:1251 [ref. 13677], Robins & Ray 1986:282 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:499 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:199 [ref. 14674], Yabe in Okamura et al. 1995:164 [ref. 22531], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:28 [ref. 25650], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:455 [ref. 25968], Parin et al. 2002:S78 [ref. 28300], Fedorov et al. 2003:72 [ref. 27579], Nelson et al. 2004:120 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:89 [ref. 37547], Mecklenburg et al. 2007:176 [ref. 29448], Møller et al. 2010:52 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:122 [ref. 31212] with comments, Page et al. 2013:123 [ref. 32708], Dolgov 2013:918 [ref. 33112], Mecklenburg et al. 2014:145 [ref. 33463], Parin et al. 2014:256 [ref. 33547], Mecklenburg & Steinke 2015:164 [ref. 34033], Afonso et al. 2016:45, 174 [ref. 36199], Kells et al. 2016:178 [ref. 35888], Mecklenburg et al. 2016:69 [ref. 34440], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:207 [ref. 36370], Dyldin & Orlov 2022:47 [ref. 38972], Love et al. 2021:122 [ref. 39279], Zorina & Chernova. 2022:89 [ref. 40474]). Current status: Valid as Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke 1912. Psychrolutidae: Icelinae. Distribution: Circumpolar, Arctic Ocean, northwestern Atlantic and North Pacific. Habitat: marine.