spinosus, Corniger Agassiz [L.] in Spix & Agassiz 1831:122, Pl. 75 [Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam; ref. 13] Atlantic off Brazil. No types known. •Valid as Corniger spinosus Agassiz 1831 -- (Uyeno & Sato in Uyeno et al. 1983:275 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:115 [ref. 23100], Lozano & Brito 1989:131 [ref. 12828], Anato et al. 1991:295 [ref. 20017], Boschung 1992:91 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:340 [ref. 23827] as espinosus, Kotlyar 1996:86 [ref. 23292], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:1013 [ref. 23897], Kotlyar 1998:210 [ref. 24674], Greenfield 2003:1200 [ref. 27041], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:70 [ref. 27192] dated 1829, Nelson et al. 2004:109 [ref. 27807], Dennis et al. 2004:73 [ref. 31601], Page et al. 2013:112 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32972], Greenfield 2016:2201 [ref. 34606], Brown et al. 2019:161 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:156 [ref. 37250], Pimentel et al. 2020:6 [ref. 38051], Robertson et al. 2020:156 [ref. 38098], Marceniuk in Marceniuk et al. 2021:187 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:98 [ref. 40480], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2023:16 [ref. 40316]). Current status: Valid as Corniger spinosus Agassiz 1831. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Distribution: Atlantic: including Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: marine.