baxteri, Cubiceps McCulloch [A. R.] 1923:15, Pl. 1 (fig. 4) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 14 (no. 1); ref. 15410] On a beach at Lord Howe Island, southwestern Pacific. Holotype (unique): AMS IA.686. •Possibly a synonym of Cubiceps caeruleus Regan 1914 -- (Haedrich 1967:81 [ref. 5357]). •Valid as Cubiceps baxteri McCulloch 1923 -- (Butler 1979:228 [ref. 8841], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:235 [ref. 6441], Haedrich 1986:847 [ref. 5659], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:236 [ref. 24556], Haedrich 1990:1014 [ref. 19509], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:176 [ref. 25472], Gomon et al. 1994:839 [ref. 22532], Agafonova 1994:173 [ref. 22696], Haedrich in Fischer et al. 1995:1325 [ref. 22829], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:602 [ref. 24023], Adam et al. 1998:14 [ref. 23610], Nakabo 2000:965 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Last 2001:3777 [ref. 26309], Shinohara et al. 2001:333 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:965 [ref. 26193], Parin & Piotrovsky 2004:S46 [ref. 28443], Love et al. 2005:170 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:511 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:1794 [ref. 29000], Shao et al. 2008:264 [ref. 29952], Gomon & Last 2008:801 [ref. 30651], Stewart & Last 2015:1664 [ref. 34320], Kells et al. 2016:322 [ref. 35888], Sutton et al. 2020:264 [ref. 37832], Love et al. 2021:214 [ref. 39279], Anderson 2022:301 [ref. 40173], Carvalho-Filho 2023:263 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Cubiceps baxteri McCulloch 1923. Nomeidae. Distribution: Atlantic; Pacific, antiequatorial: Japan; New South Wales (Australia) and Lord Howe Island; Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.); southern California (U.S.A.) south to southern Chile. Habitat: marine.