rubiginosus, Therapon Hutton [F. W.] 1875:314 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 16 (no. 95) (art. 41); ref. 18317] Coast of Otago, Bass Strait, New Zealand. Holotype (unique): ?BMNH 1886.11.18.5 [ex OM] (stuffed). Hutton specimens: OM A.75.18 (1, stuffed). Type catalog: Russell 1996:227 [ref. 22562]. Originally as Therapon (?) rubiginosus. Also in Hutton 1876:209 [ref. 14210]. •Valid as Plagiogeneion rubiginosus (Hutton 1875) -- (Heemstra & Randall 1977:367 [ref. 7057], Heemstra 1986:638 [ref. 5660], Paulin et al. 1989:189 [ref. 24556], Shcherbachev et al. 1989:167 [ref. 36134], Yatsu in Amaoka et al. 1990:276 [ref. 16024]). •Valid as Plagiogeneion rubiginosum (Hutton 1875) -- (Parin 1991:459 [ref. 19174], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:298 [ref. 28072], Allen 2006:1191 [ref. 29089], Gomon 2008:586 [ref. 30616], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:114 [ref. 36167], Trnski 2015:1277 [ref. 34198], Heemstra in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2533 [ref. 34618], Heemstra 2022:28 [ref. 39870]). Current status: Valid as Plagiogeneion rubiginosum (Hutton 1875). Emmelichthyidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in Southern Hemisphere; northern Indian Ocean (Sri Lanka). Habitat: marine.