budegassa, Lophius Spinola [M.] 1807:376 [Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris v. 10; ref. 18741] Gulf of Genoa, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:30 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Species epithet misspelled budecassa by Cuvier 1831:184 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Lophius budegassa Spinola 1807 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:660 [ref. 7223], Caruso in Whitehead et al. 1986:1362 [ref. 13677], Caruso 1990:479 [ref. 15499], Leslie & Grant 1991:787 [ref. 19769], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:ix [ref. 21953], Fricke 1999:30 [ref. 24101], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:55 [ref. 26753], Falcón et al. 2003:144 [ref. 39343], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:120 [ref. 28072], Golani 2005:27 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:66 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:58 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:32 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:184 [ref. 33547], Goren & Galil 2015:513 [ref. 33910], Caruso 2016:2048 [ref. 34596], Martins & Carneiro 2018:102 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:212 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:49 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:34 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:62 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:29 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:62 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:300 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Lophius budegassa Spinola 1807. Lophiidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Senegal, including Azores (Portugal). Habitat: brackish, marine.