Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777) . Syst. Regni Anim., 1:590.

TYPE LOCALITY: "ad Scotiam atque Groelandiam australiorem, vulgaris circa Islandiam" [North Atlantic, S Greenland] .

DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar Arctic seas (Canada, Greenland, Japan, Norway, USA, republics of the former USSR), south to Hokkaido (Japan) and Newfoundland.

SYNONYMS: albigena Pallas, 1811; lepechenii Lesson, 1828; leporina Lepechin, 1778; nautica Pallas, 1811; parsonii Lesson, 1828 .