setifer, Monacanthus Bennett [E. T.] 1831:112 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 16791] No locality. No types known. •Synonym of Stephanolepis hispidus (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1339 [ref. 13677], Harmelin-Vivien & Quéro 1990:1065 [ref. 19527]). •Valid as Monacanthus setifer Bennett 1831 -- (Robins & Ray 1986:301 [ref. 23100], Robins et al. 1991:69 [ref. 14237], Boschung 1992:181 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1996:104 [ref. 24489], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:278 [ref. 25480]). •Valid as Stephanolepis setifer (Bennett 1831) -- (Berry & Vogele 1961:72 [ref. 19549], Cervigón 1992:360 [ref. 23827], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:505 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:351 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:170 [ref. 27754], Matsuura 2003:1977 [ref. 27119], Smith et al. 2003:70 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:184 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:912 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32708], Matsuura 2014:13 [ref. 33576], Moazzam & Osmany 2016:4 [ref. 39994] misidentified, Carneiro et al. 2019:227 [ref. 37250], Robertson et al. 2020:159 [ref. 38098], Fermon et al. 2022:309 [ref. 39448] misidentified, Carvalho-Filho 2023:281 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Stephanolepis setifer (Bennett 1831). Monacanthidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.