rubescens, Hypsinotus Günther [A.] 1860:63 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 2; ref. 1963] Nagasaki, Japan. Based on Hypsinotus Temminck & Schlegel 1844:84, Pl. 42 (fig. 2). •Valid as Antigonia rubescens (Günther 1860) -- (Berry 1959:205 [ref. 20665], Ida in Okamura et al. 1982:213, 369 [ref. 8256], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:117 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura et al. 1985:445, 656 [ref. 8056], Heemstra 1986:506 [ref. 5660], Parin & Borodulina 1986:159 [ref. 6005], Paxton et al. 1989:395 [ref. 12442], Goren & Dor 1994:29 [ref. 25356], Carpenter et al. 1997:132 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:33 [ref. 26476], Heemstra 1999:2261 [ref. 24791], Nakabo 2000:510 [ref. 25086], Heemstra in Randall & Lim 2000:603 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:26 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:312 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:510 [ref. 26001], Parin & Borodulina 2005:448 [ref. 28291] as gr. rubescens, Shinohara et al. 2005:423 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:317 [ref. 28379], Parin & Borodulina 2006:157 [ref. 28616] as gr. rubescens, Paxton et al. 2006:803 [ref. 28995], Randall 2007:156 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:114 [ref. 30213], Larson et al. 2013:74 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2018:367 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:314 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 28 [ref. 38321], Anderson 2022:25 [ref. 39745] as Antigonia sp. aff. A. rubescens). Current status: Valid as Antigonia rubescens (Günther 1860). Antigoniidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion) and India east to Hawaiian Ridge, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.