mourlani, Fierasfer Petit [G.] 1934:393, Fig. 1 [Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2) v. 6 (no. 4); ref. 16449] Cannonier's Point, Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean [original from Madagascar, lost]. Neotype: ZMUC. Neotype designated by Markle & Olney 1990:385 [ref. 18996]. •Synonym of Carapus homei (Richardson 1846) -- (Arnold 1956:274 [ref. 5315]). •Valid as Carapus mourlani (Petit 1934) -- (Olney & Markle 1986:352 [ref. 5701], Machida 1989 [ref. 16609], Paxton et al. 1989:320 [ref. 12442], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:351 [ref. 21953], Myers 1999:65 [ref. 23965], Markle in Nielsen et al. 1999:12 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1978 [ref. 24753], Nakabo 2000:447 [ref. 25086], Markle in Randall & Lim 2000:596 [ref. 25122], Parmentier et al. 2000:295 [ref. 26179], Randall & Earle 2000:8 [ref. 25806], Nakabo 2002:447 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:613 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:66 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:240 [ref. 28379], Hoese et al. 2006:552 [ref. 29051], Randall 2007:121 [ref. 30952], Glynn et al. 2008:593 [ref. 29778], Fricke et al. 2011:365 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:126 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:32 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Fricke et al. 2018:82 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:40 [ref. 36273], Matsunuma 2020:4 [ref. 38476], Chacón-Monge et al. 2021:S219 [ref. 38750], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326], Heemstra 2022:257 [ref. 39704], Allen & Erdmann 2024:140 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Carapus mourlani (Petit 1934). Carapidae: Carapinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to Wakayama Prefecture (southern Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia; eastern Pacific: Costa Rica south to Ecuador, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.