Podothecus veternus Jordan & Starks, 1895 .

Veteran Poacher. To 28.5 cm (11.2 ft) TL (Lindberg and Krasyukova 1987). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk, northern Kuril Islands, south-eastern Kamchatka to western and eastern Bering Sea, eastern Chukchi Sea to western Beaufort Sea (to 71°36’N, 153°57’W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2016); one unconfirmed record from the eastern Beaufort Sea (at 70°13’N, 147°35’W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 310 m (1,017 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2016; max.: Panchenko et al. 2016). Federov et al. (2003) list an additional, outlying, maximum depth of 605 (1,984 ft).