platyrhynchus, Bathypercis Alcock [A. W.] 1894:178 [10], Pl. 9 (fig. 1) [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 62 (pt 2, No. 4); ref. 89] Bay of Bengal, 15°04'07"N, 80°25'07"E, Investigator station 137, depth 128 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F13437. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:145 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:39 [ref. 22148]. On p. 10 of separate. •Valid as Bembrops platyrhynchus (Alcock 1894) -- (Heemstra & Nelson 1986:738 [ref. 6304], Das & Nelson 1996:38 [ref. 22554], Nelson in Randall & Lim 2000:631 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:40 [ref. 25847], Nelson 2001:3516 [ref. 26284], Thompson & Suttkus 2002:293 [ref. 25991], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S116 [ref. 27377], Hoese & Bray 2006:1502 [ref. 29000], Shao et al. 2008:259 [ref. 29952], Jawad et al. 2013:4 [ref. 32489], Psomadakis et al. 2020:538 [ref. 37272], Das et al. 2022:306 [ref. 39944], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:251 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Bembrops platyrhynchus (Alcock 1894). Bembropidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa (Mozambique, Somalia) and Mascarene Ridge east to Philippines, north to South China Sea, south to Tasman Sea. Habitat: marine.