setiger, Trichonotus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:179, Pl. 39 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] In India orientali [eastern India]. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Species spelled setigerus on plate and in Index (p. xxxvi); that spelling used by Günther 1873:90 [ref. 6424]. An inland record (Herre 1936:370) reported from the Philippines by Kottelat (2013). •Valid as Trichonotus setiger Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Shimada & Yoshino 1984:18 [ref. 6733], Shen & Lin 1984:15 [ref. 13822], Yoshino & Shimada in Masuda et al. 1984:292 [ref. 6441] as setigerus, Randall et al. 1990:358 [ref. 15987], Randall & Tarr 1994:311 [ref. 21640], Allen 1997:222 [ref. 23977] as setigerus, Larson & Williams 1997:366 [ref. 23967] as setigerus, Randall et al. 1997:358 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:462 [ref. 24106], Nelson in Randall & Lim 2000:631 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1069 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:387 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:156 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:115 [ref. 25868], Nelson 2001:3512 [ref. 26284], Nakabo 2002:1069 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:52 [ref. 26830], Randall 2005:467 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1496 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2009:92 [ref. 30213], Katayama & Endo 2010:1 [ref. 30819], Motomura et al. 2010:181 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:760 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:175 [ref. 32988], Motomura et al. 2017:190 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:303 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:250 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 19 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:537 [ref. 37272] as cf. setiger, Akash et al. 2021:3 [ref. 38095]). Current status: Valid as Trichonotus setiger Bloch & Schneider 1801. Trichonotidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Fiji, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.