auriga, Trichiurus Klunzinger [C. B.] 1884:120, 121, Pl. 12 (fig. 1) [Die Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 2625] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. No types known. •Synonym of Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:462 [ref. 7206], Parin 1990:977 [ref. 19382]). •Valid as Trichiurus auriga Klunzinger 1884 -- (Nakamura & Parin 1993:104 [ref. 21769], Goren & Dor 1994:69 [ref. 25356], Adam et al. 1998:14 [ref. 23610], Nakamura & Parin 2001:3720 [ref. 26304], Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki 2003:270 [ref. 27214], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Bray et al. 2006:1765 [ref. 29091], Burhanuddin & Parin 2008:825 [ref. 29973], Larson et al. 2013:216 [ref. 32988], Ali et al. 2018:340 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:169 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:310 [ref. 36673], Holleman 2022:269 [ref. 40163]). Current status: Valid as Trichiurus auriga Klunzinger 1884. Trichiuridae: Trichiurinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Maldives and India east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.