audax, Histiophorus Philippi [R. A.] 1887:567 [35], Pl. 8 [Anales de la Universidad de Chile v. 71 (sec. 1); ref. 3464] Iquique, Chile [southeastern Pacific]. Syntypes: (2) DBCUCH. P. 35 of separate. •Valid as Tetrapturus audax (Philippi 1887) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:298 [ref. 7348], Nakamura 1983:314 [ref. 5371], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:278 [ref. 9277], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:223 [ref. 6441], Nakamura 1985:40 [ref. 20161], Heemstra 1986:841 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:142 [ref. 25477], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:233 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:66 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:441 [ref. 15987], Allen & Robertson 1994:279 [ref. 22193], Goren & Dor 1994:70 [ref. 25356], Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995:1193 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:379 [ref. 22896], Fierstine & Voigt 1996:148 [ref. 22401], Allen 1997:230 [ref. 23977], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:597 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:108 [ref. 24555], Randall et al. 1997:441 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:562 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1332 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:477 [ref. 25191], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:40 [ref. 25650], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Nakamura 2001:3763 [ref. 26306], Nakabo 2002:1332 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:423, 677 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:649 [ref. 27495], Parin 2003:S27 [ref. 28536], Lobel & Lobel 2004:77 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624] in Tetrapterus, Nelson et al. 2004:177 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Love et al. 2005:169 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:509 [ref. 28379], Bray et al. 2006:1781 [ref. 29091], Gomon 2008:793 [ref. 30616] as Tetrapterus, McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Ho & Shao 2011:60 [ref. 31432], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626]). •Valid Kajikia audax (Philippi 1887) -- (Collette et al. 2006:466 [ref. 28911], Fricke et al. 2009:113 [ref. 30213], Page et al. 2013:182 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:518 [ref. 33547], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:118 [ref. 36167], Psomadakis et al. 2015:319 [ref. 34104], Roberts 2015:1643 [ref. 34193], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Fourriére et al. 2016:459 [ref. 34668], Kells et al. 2016:320 [ref. 35888], Fricke et al. 2018:365 [ref. 35805], Matsuo & Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:280 [ref. 36460], Burton & Lea 2019:94 [ref. 37205], Eagderi et al. 2019:71 [ref. 37020], Collette & Graves 2019:310 [ref. 37341], Psomadakis et al. 2020:576 [ref. 37272], Love et al. 2021:213 [ref. 39279], Collette 2022:294 [ref. 40167], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Williams et al. 2022:[2] [ref. 40213], Mamoozadeh et al. 2023:[1 1802] [ref. 40315], Page et al. 2023:128 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:228 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Kajikia audax (Philippi 1887). Istiophoridae. Distribution: Tropical and temperate Indo-Pacific (including Red Sea; Persian Gulf; southern and central Gulf of California/Mexico), straying into southeastern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.