ferruginea, Moringua Bliss [R.] 1883:57 [Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius (N. S.) v. 13; ref. 16966] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MCZ 6156. •Synonym of Moringua guthriana (McClelland 1844) -- (Kottelat 2013:40 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Moringua ferruginea Bliss 1883 -- (Castle 1986:187 [ref. 5644], Paxton et al. 1989:111 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:24 [ref. 14125], Winterbottom et al. 1989:5 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:33 [ref. 15987], Larson & Williams 1997:346 [ref. 23967], Randall et al. 1997:33 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:41 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:38 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:193 [ref. 25086], Randall & Earle 2000:6 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:193 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:22 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:610 [ref. 27495], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945] with question, Mundy 2005:111 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:239 [ref. 28995], Fricke et al. 2009:14 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:348 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:71 [ref. 31980], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Motomura et al. 2017:27 [ref. 35490], Arndt & Fricke 2019:21 [ref. 36883], Smith 2022:83 [ref. 39684], Allen & Erdmann 2024:79 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Moringua ferruginea Bliss 1883. Moringuidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Easter Island (Chile), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, and southern Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia). Habitat: marine.