grayi, Halicampus Kaup [J. J.] 1856:22 [Catalogue of lophobranchiate fish in the collection of the British Museum; ref. 2575] India and Australia. Syntypes: BMNH 1981.5.22.2 (1) India, MNHN 0000-6025 (1) Australia. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:51 [ref. 19576]. As name only in Kaup 1853:231 [ref. 2569]. Also involves Halicampus conspicillatus of Kaup; see Opinion 53. •Valid as Halicampus grayi Kaup 1856 -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:87 [ref. 6441], Dawson 1985:84 [ref. 6541], Paxton et al. 1989:418 [ref. 12442], Larson & Williams 1997:351 [ref. 23967], Randall et al. 1997:500 [ref. 25919], Paulus 1999:2270 [ref. 24794], Nakabo 2000:531 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:604 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:27 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:531 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:28 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Paxton et al. 2006:821 [ref. 29073], Kuiter 2009:266 [ref. 30404], Ohta & Motomura 2010:57 [ref. 31557], Allen & Erdmann 2012:196 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:76 [ref. 32988] dated 1853 and 1856, Yoshida et al. 2013:70 [ref. 34464], Hamilton et al. 2016:Supplement 1 [ref. 35615], Golani & Fricke 2018:50 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36673], Sonoyama et al. 2020:36 [ref. 37637], Araki in Motomura et al. 2021:16 [ref. 38121], Matsunuma et al. 2021:44 [ref. 38940], Moots 2022:457 [ref. 39722], Allen & Erdmann 2024:215 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Halicampus grayi Kaup 1856. Syngnathidae: Syngnathinae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden and Sri Lanka east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Sea of Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.