novaezeelandiae, Brachypleura Günther [A.] 1862:419 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] New Zealand [erroneous]. Syntypes: BMNH 1848.3.18.136 (1), 1855.9.19.1234 (1). Originally as novae zeelandiae. Genus Brachypleura Günther 1862 is preoccupied by Brachypleura Angelin 1854 in Trilobita, so Laiopteryx Weber 1913 is the valid genus name for this species. •Valid as Brachypleura novaezeelandiae Günther 1862 -- (Norman 1927:43 [ref. 3217], Norman 1934:400 [ref. 6893], Anderson et al. 1998:28 [ref. 23611], Li & Wang 1995:108 [ref. 16193], Randall 1995:354 [ref. 22896], Evseenko 1996:726 [ref. 24666], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:587 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:228 [ref. 23922], Evseenko 1998:57 [ref. 23643], Hensley 2001:3797 [ref. 26310], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S122 [ref. 27377], Hoese & Bray 2006:1808 [ref. 29000], Ho et al. 2009:8 [ref. 31461], Kimura 2009:315 [ref. 30426], Larson et al. 2013:222 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:209 [ref. 34464], Voronina et al. 2016:383 [ref. 35064], Imamura in Kimura et al. 2018:287 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:121 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 11 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:582 [ref. 37272], Hensley & Amaoka 2022:319 [ref. 40220]). •Valid as Laiopteryx novaezeelandiae (Günther 1862) -- (Vilasri et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Laiopteryx novaezeelandiae (Günther 1862). Citharidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Maldives east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to northern Vietnam and southern China, south to northern Australia. IUCN (2021): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.