mutilus, Lophius Alcock [A. W.] 1894:179 [11] [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 62 (pt 2, No. 4); ref. 89] Bay of Bengal [eastern Indian Ocean], 15°04'07"N, 80°25'07"E, Investigator station 137, depth 128 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F13438. Holotype not seen in 2013 (Ho, pers. obse., 2013/4). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:163 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:46-47 [ref. 22148]. On p. 11 of separate. Figured in Alcock 1894: Pl. 10 (fig. 2) [ref. 20532]. •Valid as Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock 1894) -- (Caruso 1981:538 [ref. 5169], Dor 1984:55 [ref. 29757], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:102 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:267, 376 [ref. 8057], Caruso 1986:364 [ref. 6290], Caruso 1989:1072 [ref. 20126], Paxton et al. 1989:273 [ref. 12442], Shcherbachev et al. 1989:165 [ref. 36134], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:217 [ref. 24016], Gomon et al. 1994:282 [ref. 22532], Fricke 1999:103 [ref. 24106], Caruso 1999:2009 [ref. 24765], Nakabo 2000:453 [ref. 25086], Caruso in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:22 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:309 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:453 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Shinohara et al. 2005:419 [ref. 28370], Paxton et al. 2006:635 [ref. 28994], Ho & Shao 2007:27 [ref. 29146], Ho & Shao 2008:371 [ref. 29894], Gomon 2008:362 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Ho et al. 2011:1737 [ref. 31638], Ho & Chen 2013:594 [ref. 32758], Larson et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32988], Ho et al. 2016:84 [ref. 35218], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 29 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:329 [ref. 37272], Caruso 2022:285 [ref. 39709], Matsunuma et al. 2022:62 [ref. 39425]). Current status: Valid as Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock 1894). Lophiidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.