trachypoma, Myripristis Günther [A.] 1859:25 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 1; ref. 1961] Cuba and West Indies. Syntypes: BMNH 1842.12.12.66 (1, stuffed), 1859.3.14.22 (1) Cuba. Type catalog: Faloh-Gandarilla et al. 2016:30 [ref. 35195]. Also listed was Plate III, but on preface p. vi it is stated, "The Plates referred to, and executed by Mr. Ford, will be published as a separate volume." •Valid as Ostichthys trachypoma (Günther 1859) -- (Uyeno & Sato in Uyeno et al. 1983:276 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:115 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1991:253 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:92 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:341 [ref. 23827], Kotlyar 1996:90 [ref. 23292], Schwartz 1997:183 [ref. 25308], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:10220 [ref. 23897], Kotlyar 1998:209 [ref. 24674], Moore et al. in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:298 [ref. 26158], Greenfield 2003:1200 [ref. 27041], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:70 [ref. 27192], Roa-Varón et al. 2003:9 [ref. 27814], Nelson et al. 2004:110 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:112 [ref. 32708], Faloh-Gandarilla et al. 2016:30 [ref. 35195] as trachipoma, Greenfield et al. 2017:29 [ref. 35170], Fricke 2017:68 [ref. 35313], Fricke 2017:[6] [ref. 35637], Matsunuma et al. 2018:[28] [ref. 35840], Robertson et al. 2020:156 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho 2023:98 [ref. 40480], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2023:17 [ref. 40316]). Current status: Valid as Ostichthys trachypoma (Günther 1859). Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to northern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.