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Brief review of the genera Hemilepidotus and Melletes (Cottidae) and some traits of the biology of a new species for Russia Hemilepidotus zapus from Pacific waters of the northern Kurils. J Ichthyol 4:333-349

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... Rare. Due to its rare occurrence, it has no commercial value in Russian waters (Orlov and Tokranov, 2003); however, it is occasionally harvested by Russian longliners in the area of the Emperor Seamounts Zolotov and Spirin, 2012;Zolotov et al., 2014). C o n s e r v a t i o n s t a t u s: IUCN (Not Evaluated). ...
... Marine, brackish water. (Tanaka, 1908;Jordan et al., 1913;Isii, 1940;Schmidt, 1950;Ueno, 1971;Lindberg and Krasyukova, 1987;Fedorov et al., 2003;Shuntov et al., 2003Shuntov et al., , 2014Tokranov et al., 2003;Sideleva et al., 2006a;Sokolovskii et al., 2007Sokolovskii et al., , 2011Kim, 2013;Tuponogov and Kodolov, 2014;Safronov and Nikitin, 2017;Dyldin et al., 2018Dyldin et al., , 2020Panchenko and Pushchina, 2018;Shuntov and Temnykh, 2018;Kim Sen Tok and Kim, 2019;Kawai, 2020). Marine. ...
... North Pacific and adjacent Arctic. Sakhalin: on the Sea of Okhotsk side, from the Amur estuary to Aniva Bay, including Sakhalinskiy, Baikal, Nyisky, Piltun, and Terpeniya bays, as well as the Nevelsky Strait in the northern part of the Tatar Strait (Schmidt, 1904(Schmidt, , 1950Soldatov and Lindberg, 1930;Isii, 1940;Lindberg, 1959;Ueno, 1971;Lindberg and Krasyukova, 1987;Shuntov et al., 2003;Tokranov et al., 2003;Sideleva et al., 2006a;Pometeev, 2007;Tuponogov and Kodolov, 2014;Mecklenburg et al., 2016Mecklenburg et al., , 2018Dyldin and Orlov, 2017 ;Dyldin et al., 2018Dyldin et al., , 2020Kawai, 2020). Marine, brackish water. ...
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... Northwestern Pacific, Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic. From Okhotsk Sea and Japan Sea side of Hokkaido Island (Nakabo, 2002;Shinohara et al., 2014) up to Chukchi Sea, including Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk, as well as Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, and islands of Commander-Aleutian Archipelago (Taranetz, 1937a;Andriashev, 1954;Lindberg and Krasyukova, 1987;Sheiko and Fedorov, 2000;Mecklenburg et al., 2002Parin et al., 2002;Tokranov et al., 2003;Love et al., 2005;Datsky, 2015;Mecklenburg and Steinke, 2015). ...
... N o t a t i o n. Some authors ( Lindberg and Krasyukova, 1987;Sheiko and Fedorov, 2000;Tokranov et al., 2003;Sideleva et al., 2006a; give it as part of Melletes genus, considering it valid, and the latter "significantly" differs from Hemilepidotus by a num- ber of morphological signs according to Tokranov et al. (2003). According to other sources (Mecklenburg et al., 2002;Love et al., 2005;Parin et al., 2014;Mecklenburg and Steinke, 2015), Melletes genus is reduced to synonymy with Hemilepidotus. ...
... N o t a t i o n. Some authors ( Lindberg and Krasyukova, 1987;Sheiko and Fedorov, 2000;Tokranov et al., 2003;Sideleva et al., 2006a; give it as part of Melletes genus, considering it valid, and the latter "significantly" differs from Hemilepidotus by a num- ber of morphological signs according to Tokranov et al. (2003). According to other sources (Mecklenburg et al., 2002;Love et al., 2005;Parin et al., 2014;Mecklenburg and Steinke, 2015), Melletes genus is reduced to synonymy with Hemilepidotus. ...
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... papilio, H. zapus, H. jordani; Online Resource 3) is similar to that for other species within a genus. Considering this result and the species' morphology, we do not recognize the monotypic Melletes Bean, 1880, as either a genus (e.g., Parin et al. 2002; Tokranov et al. 2003) or subgenus (e.g., Peden 1979; Mecklenburg et al. 2007) for H. papilio. It is not clear from the recent review of the hemilepidotine species (Tokranov et al. 2003) why the authors consider the morphological differences between H. papilio and the others to be indicative of separation at the generic level. ...
... Considering this result and the species' morphology, we do not recognize the monotypic Melletes Bean, 1880, as either a genus (e.g., Parin et al. 2002; Tokranov et al. 2003) or subgenus (e.g., Peden 1979; Mecklenburg et al. 2007) for H. papilio. It is not clear from the recent review of the hemilepidotine species (Tokranov et al. 2003) why the authors consider the morphological differences between H. papilio and the others to be indicative of separation at the generic level. Mecklenburg et al. (2002) followed Peden (1979, who considered that a further degree of specialization in features common to Hemilepidotus species characterizes H. papilio and that H. spinosus also shows a level of differentiation indicating a different lineage, and recognized three subgenera of Hemilepidotus (Calcilepidotus, Hemilepidotus, Melletes) for the three lineages. ...
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