pretiosus, Ruvettus Cocco [A.] 1833:18 [L'Osservatore Peloritano, Messina v. 8; ref. 861] Strait of Messina, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. A date of 1829 appears in the literature but is apparently incorrect. Appeared without scientific name or description in Cocco 1833:21 [ref. 859]. Above reference 861 not seen; if it does not date to ref. 861 then the species dates to 1834:33 [ref. 18013]. •Valid as Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833 -- (Parin & Bekker 1973:460 [ref. 7206], Nakamura in Okamura et al. 1982:263, 388 [ref. 8256], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:269 [ref. 9277], Kido in Amaoka et al. 1983:131, 205 [ref. 8379], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:413 [ref. 14275], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:227 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura et al. 1985:535, 701 [ref. 8056], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:972 [ref. 13676], Nakamura 1986:828 [ref. 5696], Robins & Ray 1986:258 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:444 [ref. 25518], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:227 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:178 [ref. 14674], Parin 1990:970 [ref. 19382], Boschung 1992:167 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:323 [ref. 23827], Nakamura & Parin 1993:52 [ref. 21769], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:170 [ref. 25472], Cervigón 1994:226 [ref. 24488], Gomon et al. 1994:815 [ref. 22532], Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995:1113 [ref. 22829], Shinohara et al. 1996:183 [ref. 26605], Suzuki & Hosokawa 1997:2 [ref. 24370], Santos et al. 1997:105 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:98 [ref. 24952], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:392 [ref. 24555], Uiblein et al. 1999:65 [ref. 24045], Fricke 1999:558 [ref. 24106], Bettoso & Dulĉić 1999:1145 [ref. 24294], Pakhorukov 1999:658 [ref. 24883], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:327 [ref. 25013], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1338 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:494 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Pakhorukov & Boltachev 2001:793 [ref. 25932], Nakamura & Parin 2001:3708 [ref. 26304] dated 1829, Shinohara et al. 2001:332 [ref. 25995], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:139 [ref. 26753], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:507 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:1338 [ref. 26193], Moore et al. 2003:230 [ref. 27076], Parin & Nakamura 2003:1824 [ref. 27115], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495] dated 1829, Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:101 [ref. 27192], Parin 2003:S26 [ref. 28536], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Nelson et al. 2004:175 [ref. 27807], Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624] dating to 1829, Love et al. 2005:165 [ref. 37547], Golani 2005:59 [ref. 37112], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:763 [ref. 28815], Mundy 2005:501 [ref. 28379], Shinohara et al. 2005:439 [ref. 28370], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Trunov 2006:476 [ref. 28786], Bray & Hoese 2006:1759 [ref. 29049], Fricke et al. 2007:109 [ref. 29533], Randall 2007:444 [ref. 30952], Gomon 2008:778 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:111 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:68 [ref. 36649], Shinohara et al. 2011:54 [ref. 31715], Page et al. 2013:181 [ref. 32708], Shinohara et al. 2014:272 [ref. 33330], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:82 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:509 [ref. 33547], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:118 [ref. 36167], Stewart 2015:1613 [ref. 34196], Bañón et al. 2016:324 [ref. 34397], Kells et al. 2016:312 [ref. 35888], Nión et al. 2016:52 [ref. 35565], Parin & Nakamura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2884 [ref. 34618], Fricke et al. 2018:361 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:172 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:91 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:163 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Iglésias et al. 2019:282 [ref. 37098], Miyazaki et al. 2019:123 [ref. 37957], Reiner 2019:274 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:68 [ref. 37515], Klautau et al. 2020:9 [ref. 37903], Kovačić et al. 2020:21 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:567 [ref. 37272], Sutton et al. 2020:259 [ref. 37832], Golani 2021:82 [ref. 38303], Nakamura et al. 2020:19 [ref. 38484], Bañón & Maño 2021:93 [ref. 38887], Ben Amor et al. 2021:213 [ref. 38977], Koeda et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38857], Kovačić et al. 2021:34 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:210 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:216 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:18 [ref. 41326], Heemstra 2022:259 [ref. 40162], Carvalho-Filho 2023:246 [ref. 40480], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40389], Page et al. 2023:113 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:258 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833. Gempylidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea). Habitat: marine.