banneri, Syngnathus Herald [E. S.] & Randall [J. E.] 1972:135, Fig. 4 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 4) v. 39 (no. 11); ref. 2097] About 1/2 mile off harbor of Ishigaki City, Ishigaki Island, Ryukyu Islands, western North Pacific, depth 20-35 feet. Holotype: BPBM 8695. Paratypes: CAS 14375 (1). •Valid as Cosmocampus banneri (Herald & Randall 1972) -- (Dawson 1985:51 [ref. 6541], Dawson 1986:447 [ref. 5650], Paxton et al. 1989:415 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:19 [ref. 13251], Ho et al. 1993:6 [ref. 22789], Goren & Dor 1994:19 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:100 [ref. 22896], Senou & Ono 1998:6 [ref. 24383], Myers 1999:90 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:149 [ref. 24106], Paulus 1999:2270 [ref. 24794], Allen 2000:86 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:523 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:603 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:26 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:523 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:28 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:10 [ref. 27624], Fricke 2004:19 [ref. 28269], Randall 2005:106 [ref. 28239], Paxton et al. 2006:817 [ref. 29073], Kuiter 2009:239 [ref. 30404], Fricke et al. 2011:375 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:191 [ref. 31980], Hamilton et al. 2016:Supplement 1 [ref. 35615], Golani & Fricke 2018:49 [ref. 36273], Moots 2022:447 [ref. 39722], Stiller et al. 2022: Additional file p. 23 [ref. 39142], Yuki et al. 2023:22 [ref. 40984], Allen & Erdmann 2024:209 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Cosmocampus banneri (Herald & Randall 1972). Syngnathidae: Syngnathinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Comoros, Seychelles and Mascarenes (Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands and Fiji and Tonga, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.