scriptissimus, Antennarius Jordan [D. S.] 1902:373, Fig. 4 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1261); ref. 14883] Boshu, Awa Province [Bōsō Peninsula, Chiba Prefecture, Japan]. Holotype (unique): ZUMT [Imperial Museum, Tokyo] (stuffed). •Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:58 [ref. 20669], Lindberg et al. 1997:218 [ref. 23547], Pietsch 1999:2015 [ref. 24766], Choi et al. 2003:542 [ref. 26218]). •Valid as Antennarius scriptissimus Jordan 1902 -- (Nakabo 2000:456 [ref. 25086], Pietsch in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:456 [ref. 26001], Randall et al. 2002:156 [ref. 26192], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213]). •Valid as Fowlerichthys scriptissimus (Jordan 1902) -- (Arnold & Pietsch 2012:128 [ref. 31574], Stewart 2015:886 [ref. 34254], Kim et al. 2020:75 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:32 [ref. 37637], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:63 [ref. 38284], Arnold & Pietsch 2022:296 [ref. 39710], Allen & Erdmann 2024:168 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Fowlerichthys scriptissimus (Jordan 1902). Antennariidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Oman and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Philippines, Cook Islands and Society Islands, north to Sea of Japan (Korea and Japan), south to New Zealand. Habitat: marine.