platyura, Belone Bennett [E. T.] 1832:168 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 4944] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. •Valid as Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:57 [ref. 13277], Allen 1997:64 [ref. 23977]). •Synonym of Platybelone argulus (Lesueur 1821) -- (Collette & Berry 1965:391 [ref. 13367], Collette & Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:607 [ref. 13676], Pequeño 1989:50 [ref. 14125], Randall et al. 1990:58 [ref. 15987], Myers 1999:74 [ref. 23965]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), but a valid subspecies platyura -- (Parin 1967:13 [ref. 10272], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:78 [ref. 6441], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1997:58 [ref. 25919], Collette 1999:2155 [ref. 24785], Randall 1999:8 [ref. 25829], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:599 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:563 [ref. 25086], Randall & Earle 2000:9 [ref. 25806], Nakabo 2002:563 [ref. 26001], Collette 2003:4, 16 [ref. 27306], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:14 [ref. 35333], Matsunuma 2020:7 [ref. 38476], Collette 2022:376 [ref. 39718]). •Valid as Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:40 [ref. 25477], Allen & Adrim 2003:26 [ref. 26830], Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Eagderi et al. 2019:21 [ref. 37020]). Current status: Valid as Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832). Belonidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Easter Island and Sala-y-Gomez Ridge, north to southern Japan, east coast of central Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Kimberley (Western Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands and Rapa (French Polynesia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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