Platycephalus Bloch [M. E.] 1795:96 Masc. Platycephalus spathula Bloch 1795 (= Callionymus indicus Linnaeus 1758). Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan & Evermann 1917:53. •Valid as Platycephalus Bloch 1795 -- (Hureau 1973:592 [ref. 7197], Ochiai in Masuda et al. 1984:322 [ref. 6441], Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:1241 [ref. 13677], Knapp 1986:484 [ref. 5683], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:156 [ref. 15964], Paxton et al. 1989:467 [ref. 12442], Ataur Rahman 1989:316 [ref. 24860], Jin in Pan et al. 1991:521 [ref. 23876], Gomon et al. 1994:518 [ref. 22532], Imamura 1996:198 [ref. 22700], Knapp 1999:2386 [ref. 24807], Ataur Rahman 2003:342 [ref. 31338], Paxton et al. 2006:939 [ref. 29079], Imamura 2008:399 [ref. 29892], Gomon 2008:517 [ref. 30616], Imamura 2009:75 [ref. 30434], Imamura & Knapp 2009:57 [ref. 30532], Coad 2010:261 [ref. 36620], Imamura 2011:393 [ref. 31625], Imamura 2013:112 [ref. 33646], Imamura 2013:183 [ref. 33094], Kottelat 2013:318 [ref. 32989], Imamura 2015:153 [ref. 33640], Motomura et al. 2017:73 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:140 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:59 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Platycephalus Bloch 1795. Platycephalidae.