phaeton, Callionymus Günther [A.] 1861:147 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: ?ANSP 19945-56 (12), NMW 58817 (1). Originally as phaëton. Regarded as a replacement name for Callionymus festivus Bonaparte 1833, preoccupied by Callionymys festivus Pallas 1814. May use Synchiropus or Foetorepus; authors differ. •Valid as Callionymus phaeton Günther 1861 -- (Wheeler 1973:517 [ref. 7190]). •Valid as Foetorepus phaeton (Günther 1861) -- (Santos et al. 1997:102 [ref. 23531]). •Valid as Synchiropus phaeton (Günther 1861) -- (Fricke 1981:39 [ref. 1499], Fricke 1982:77 [ref. 5432], Fricke in Whitehead et al. 1986:1093 [ref. 13677], Davis & Fricke 1990:923 [ref. 19375], Arruda 1997:105 [ref. 24952], Uiblein et al. 1999:65 [ref. 24045], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:129 [ref. 26753], Fricke 2002:63 [ref. 26547], Anderson et al. 2005:28 [ref. 28396], Golani 2005:55 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:102 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:61 [ref. 36649], Fricke in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2823 [ref. 34618], Fricke & Ordines 2017:166, 169 [ref. 35468], Carneiro et al. 2019:294 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:59 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:47 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:73 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:67 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:218 [ref. 39448], Fricke et al. 2022:8 [ref. 39825], Othman & Galiya in Digenis et al. 2024:108 [ref. 40958]). Replacement Name. Current status: Valid as Synchiropus phaeton (Günther 1861). Callionymidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Gambia, including Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.