typus, Histiopterus Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1844:86, Pl. 45 [Fauna Japonica Parts 5-6; ref. 4372] Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. Lectotype: RMNH 422. Paralectotypes: ?RMNH D543 (1, stuffed). Lectotype selected by Boeseman 1947:86 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Histiopterus typus Temminck & Schlegel 1844 -- (Hardy 1983:179 [ref. 5385], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:189 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura et al. 1985:521, 694 [ref. 8056], Heemstra 1986:622 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:108 [ref. 25477], Baranes & Golani 1993:310 [ref. 22372], Goren & Dor 1994:49 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:256 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:390 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:174 [ref. 23977], Mundy & Moser 1997:258 [ref. 23514], Carpenter et al. 1997:195 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:130 [ref. 26476], Fricke 1999:351 [ref. 24106], Heemstra in Randall & Lim 2000:624 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:908 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:327 [ref. 25995], Heemstra 2001:3288 [ref. 26120], Nakabo 2002:908 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:355, 625 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S112 [ref. 27377], Shinohara et al. 2005:436 [ref. 28370], Bray et al. 2006:1313 [ref. 29091], Fricke et al. 2009:75 [ref. 30213], Shinohara et al. 2011:53 [ref. 31715], Kim 2012:89 [ref. 32039], Larson et al. 2013:158 [ref. 32988], Shinohara et al. 2014:263 [ref. 33330], Psomadakis et al. 2015:292 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:170 [ref. 35490], Golani & Fricke 2018:112 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:119 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:92 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:199 [ref. 36673], Bogorodsky et al. 2020:532 [ref. 38001], Kim et al. 2020:143 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:515 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:79 [ref. 37637], Ali et al. 2021:198 [ref. 38674], Ali et al. 2022:198 [ref. 39462], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:233 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:430 [ref. 39850]). Current status: Valid as Histiopterus typus Temminck & Schlegel 1844. Pentacerotidae: Histiopterinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Gulf of Aden, Socotra (Yemen), Comoro Islands, Réunion (western Mascarenes) and Persian Gulf east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Korea and central Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.
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