aper, Zeus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:267 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Rome and Genoa, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:36 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Misspelled asper by Cabrera y Corro, Pérez & Hänseler 1817:4 [ref. 17319], see Graells 1887:178 [ref. 30438]. •Valid as Capros aper (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Krefft 1973:353 [ref. 7166], Quéro in Whitehead et al. 1986:778 [ref. 13676], Zehren 1987;564 [ref. 6060], Karrer & Post 1990:641 [ref. 17330], Santos et al. 1997:73 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:79 [ref. 24952], Uiblein et al. 1999:64 [ref. 24045], Porteiro et al. 1999:42 [ref. 24203] as Caprus, Fricke 1999:36 [ref. 24101], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:63 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:31 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:113 [ref. 29533], Fricke 2008:57 [ref. 30182], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:35 [ref. 36649], Wirtz et al. 2013:135 [ref. 32972], Heemstra in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2933 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:297 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:114 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:33 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:80 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:33 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:59 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Capros aper (Linnaeus 1758). Caproidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Senegal, including Azores and Madeira. Habitat: marine.