vespertilio, Lophius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:236 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] American Ocean. Holotype (unique): Zool. Inst. Uppsala [Mus. Alströmer-Linné] 40. Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:39 [ref. 23530]. Holotype is dried and mounted. •Valid as Ogcocephalus vespertilio (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Bradbury 1967:427 [ref. 23209], Bradbury 1980:247 [ref. 6538], Andreata & Séret 1996:584 [ref. 16204], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], Bradbury 2003:10 [ref. 27309], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:64 [ref. 27192], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:124 [ref. 37485], Nión et al. 2016:41 [ref. 35565], Marceniuk et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35324], Spier et al. 2018:8 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:684 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:85 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Ogcocephalus vespertilio (Linnaeus 1758). Ogcocephalidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to Uruguay. IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.