indica, Cepola Day [F.] 1888:796 [The fishes of India Suppl.; ref. 1082] Madras, India. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:160 [ref. 23762]. •Synonym of Acanthocepola limbata (Valenciennes 1835) -- (Smith-Vaniz 2001:3332 [ref. 26130]). •Valid as Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888) -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:201 [ref. 6441], Mok 1988:507 [ref. 12752], Chen et al. 1997:131 [ref. 26476], Imai in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:915 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2001:327 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:915 [ref. 26193], Psomadakis et al. 2015:293 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:171 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:220 [ref. 36460], Mahesh et al. 2019:[2] [ref. 36878], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:145 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:515 [ref. 37272], Silambarasan et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38784], Smith-Vaniz 2022:316 [ref. 39947]). Current status: Valid as Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888). Cepolidae: Cepolinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan and India east to Philippines, north to southern Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: marine.