whiteleggii, Psenes Waite [E. R.] 1894:218, Pl. 17 (fig. 1) [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Series 2) v. 9 (pt 2); ref. 14568] Maroubra, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype: AMS I.3297. Paratypes: (several) AMS I.3297 (8). •Valid as Psenes whiteleggii Waite 1894 -- (Haedrich 1967:88 [ref. 5357], Haedrich 1986:850 [ref. 5659]). •Synonym of Cubiceps squamiceps (Lloyd 1909) -- (Johnson 1999:751 [ref. 25471]). •Valid as Cubiceps whiteleggii (Waite 1894) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:148 [ref. 25477], Allen 1997:236 [ref. 23977], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Last 2001:3775 [ref. 26309], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331, 3338 [ref. 27945], Parin & Piotrovsky 2004:S49 [ref. 28443], Hoese & Bray 2006:1795 [ref. 29000], Gomon & Last 2008:802 [ref. 30651], Fricke et al. 2009:113 [ref. 30213], Larson et al. 2013:221 [ref. 32988], Shinohara et al. 2014:273 [ref. 33330], Psomadakis et al. 2015:320 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:178 [ref. 35490], Cabebe & Motomura 2019:117 [ref. 37815], Fricke et al. 2019:314 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 18 [ref. 38321], Kawai et al. 2020:54 [ref. 37785], Kim et al. 2020:185 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:578 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:84 [ref. 37637], Viji et al. 2021:143 [ref. 38376], Anderson 2022:303 [ref. 40173]). Current status: Valid as Cubiceps whiteleggii (Waite 1894). Nomeidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Mascarenes east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Korea and Japan, south to Australia. Habitat: marine.