bifasciatum, Diploprion Cuvier [G.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:137, Pl. 21 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Java, Indonesia. Syntypes (Kuhl & van Hasselt specimens): MNHN 0000-7296 (1), ?ZMB 6377 [ex RMNH] (1, stuffed). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:14 [ref. 19232]. Based on manuscript description by Kuhl & van Hasselt, and on underlying specimens which may be treated as syntypes. Combined with a masculine genus, the adjective should be bifasciatus. •Valid as Diploprion bifasciatus Cuvier 1828 -- (Randall et al. 1971:172 [ref. 30341], Kyushin et al. 1982:143 [ref. 19754], Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:139 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:60 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:517 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:122 [ref. 15987], Baldwin et al. 1991:68 [ref. 19140], Kuiter 1993:141 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:160 [ref. 25479], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:248 [ref. 27969], Baldwin & Smith 1998:334 [ref. 23622], Larson & Williams 1997:355 [ref. 23967], Allen 1997:94 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:122 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:122 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:118 [ref. 23965], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2473 [ref. 24815], Johnson 1999:731 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:726 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:609 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:194 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:90 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:98 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:98 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:30 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:726 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:31 [ref. 26830], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:51 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:119 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:168 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1001 [ref. 29000], Motomura in Motomura & Satapoomin 2009:86 [ref. 30492], Fricke et al. 2011:384 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:304 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:99 [ref. 32988] with author as Kuhl & van Hasselt, Yoshida et al. 2013:98 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:60 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:84 [ref. 35490], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:99 [ref. 36460], Hoschke et al. 2019:155 [ref. 36626], Goutham-Bharathi & Sivaperuman 2020:215 [ref. 40757] as bifasciatum, Parenti & Randall 2020:48 [ref. 37354], Psomadakis et al. 2020:386 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:53 [ref. 37637], Akhilesh et al. 2021:50 [ref. 38701] as bifasciatum, Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:8 [ref. 40448] as bifasciatum, Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:145 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:80 [ref. 39742] as bifasciatum, Esmaeili et al. 2023:227 [ref. 40327], Murase et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40935] as bifasciatum, Allen & Erdmann 2024:327 [ref. 40796] as bifasciatum). Current status: Valid as Diploprion bifasciatus Cuvier 1828. Liopropomatidae: Diploprioninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Maldives, India and Sri Lanka east to Vanuatu, north to southern Sea of Japan, south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), southern Queensland (Australia), Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.