brevirostris, Malacanthus Guichenot [A.] 1848:14 [Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne (Paris) v. 11; ref. 18163] Madagascar. Lectotype: MNHN A-3661. Paralectotypes: MNHN A-3662 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:23 [ref. 15502]. Lectotype selected by Dooley 1978:60 [ref. 5499]. •Valid as Malacanthus brevirostris Guichenot 1848 -- (Dooley 1978:58 [ref. 5499], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:152 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:120 [ref. 29757], Shen & Lin 1984:11 [ref. 13822], Heemstra 1986:614 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:76 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:566 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:181 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:33 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:154 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:166 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:161 [ref. 25479], Allen & Robertson 1994:124 [ref. 22193], Goren & Dor 1994:32 [ref. 25356], Schneider & Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995:1271 [ref. 22830], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:351 [ref. 24023], Allen 1997:118 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:152 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:154 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:135 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:238 [ref. 24106], Dooley 1999:2647 [ref. 24837], Johnson 1999:733 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:784 [ref. 25086], Dooley in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:222 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:13 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:784 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:37 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:624 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:71 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:15 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:265 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:218 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:359 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:1129 [ref. 28995], Randall 2007:218 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:54 [ref. 30213], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:191 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:114 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:423 [ref. 31980], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Trnski 2015:1235 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:35 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:177 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:81 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:142 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:413 [ref. 37272], Durville et al. 2021:311 [ref. 38802], Wada et al. 2021:41 [ref. 38521], Dooley 2022:381 [ref. 39861], Fujiwara et al. 2022:90 [ref. 39094], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:8 [ref. 39607], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:161 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:20 [ref. 41326], Allen & Erdmann 2024:452 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Malacanthus brevirostris Guichenot 1848. Malacanthidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to Amami Islands and Tokara Islands (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, New Caledonia, northern New Zealand and Austral Islands; eastern Pacific: including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.