fasciola, Idiacanthus Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1877:847 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876; ref. 3454] North of Australia, 117°E, eastern Indian Ocean; western Pacific north of New Guinea, 1°04'05"N, 136°03'06"E, at surface. Syntypes: (2) ZMB 9338 (1), 9772 (1), ?17453 (1) station 226. •Valid as Idiacanthus fasciola Peters 1877 -- (Gibbs 1964:514 [ref. 6961], Krueger 1973:144 [ref. 7177], Fujii in Okamura et al. 1982:91, 333 [ref. 8256], Yamamoto in Amaoka et al. 1983:85, 181 [ref. 8379], Gibbs in Whitehead et al. 1984:368 [ref. 13675], Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984:54 [ref. 6441], Hulley 1986:234 [ref. 5672], Nakamura in Nakamura et al. 1986:96 [ref. 14235], Scott & Scott 1988:185 [ref. 25518], Matarese et al. 1989:122 [ref. 26885], Paxton et al. 1989:208 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:103 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:97 [ref. 14674], Krueger 1990:342 [ref. 14983], Santos et al. 1997:36 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:39 [ref. 24952], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:466 [ref. 23897], Fricke 1999:90 [ref. 24106], Porteiro et al. 1999:31 [ref. 24203], Harold 1999:1917 [ref. 24741], Nakabo 2000:346 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:19 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:346 [ref. 26001], Harold 2003:900 [ref. 27001], Moore et al. 2003:191 [ref. 27076], Love et al. 2005:38 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:190 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:454 [ref. 28994], Fricke et al. 2011:357 [ref. 31242], Stewart & Kenaley 2015:523 [ref. 34250], Harold 2016:1805 [ref. 34568], Nión et al. 2016:36 [ref. 35565] with author as Peter, Carneiro et al. 2019:100 [ref. 37250], Sutton et al. 2020:113 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:59 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:88 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Idiacanthus fasciola Peters 1877. Stomiidae: Idiacanthinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas. Habitat: marine.