Callorhinus ursinus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:37.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Camschatcae maritimus inter Asiam and Americam proximam, primario in infula Beringri," restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to "Bering Island."

DISTRIBUTION: North Pacific, in Okhotsk and Bering Seas; Commander and Pribilof Isis (Russia), south to Japan, Shantung (China), and S California (USA).

SYNONYMS: alascanus Jordan and Clark, 1898; californianus Gray, 1866; curilensis Jordan and Clark, 1898; cynocephala Walbaum, 1792; mimica Tilesius, 1835.