ruber, Halicmetus Alcock [A. W.] 1891:27, Pl. 8 (figs. 1, 1a-b) [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 8 (no. 43/44); ref. 87] Andaman Sea, 11°31'40"N, 92°46'06"E, Investigator station 115, depth 188-220 fathoms. Syntypes: ZSI F13025-26 (2). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:164 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:47 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Alcock 1898:Pl. 19 (fig. 5) [ref. 20534]. •Valid as Halicmetus ruber Alcock 1891 -- (Bradbury 1967:415 [ref. 23209], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:104 [ref. 6441], Lindberg et al. 1997:232 [ref. 23547], Adam et al. 1998:10 [ref. 23610], Bradbury 1999:2025 [ref. 24767], Nakabo 2000:460 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:310 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:460 [ref. 26001]). •Valid as Halicmetes ruber Alcock 1891 -- (Yamakawa in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:287, 383 [ref. 8057], Bradbury in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Bradbury 2003:5 [ref. 27309], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Shinohara et al. 2005:419 [ref. 28370], Ho et al. 2008:771 [ref. 29970], Ho & Shao 2008:302 [ref. 30133] as cf.ruber, Ho & Last 2018:191 [ref. 36258], Psomadakis et al. 2020:332 [ref. 37272] as cf. ruber, Prokofiev 2020:834 [ref. 38047], Ho 2022:182 [ref. 39273]). Current status: Valid as Halicmetus ruber Alcock 1891. Ogcocephalidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.