townsendi, Parascolopsis Boulenger [G. A.] 1901:262, Pl. 6 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 7 (no. 39) (art. 32); ref. 560] Sea of Oman. Syntypes: BMNH 1901.1.30.11-14 (3), 1901.1.30.15 (1), 1901.1.30.16-17 (2); FMNH 5736 (1); MNHN 1903-0112 [ex BMNH] (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1983:8 [ref. 11366], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:63 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Parascolopsis townsendi Boulenger 1901 -- (Russell 1990:77 [ref. 19228], Russell & Golani 1993:344 [ref. 21129], Goren & Dor 1994:40 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:217 [ref. 22896], Russell 1996:64 [ref. 22469], Naik et al. 2002:76 [ref. 26716], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Barman & Mishra 2009:22 [ref. 37652], Psomadakis et al. 2015:270 [ref. 34104], Nair et al. 2016:1 [ref. 34793], Russell 2022:335 [ref. 39836]). Current status: Valid as Parascolopsis townsendi Boulenger 1901. Nemipteridae. Distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Pakistan. Habitat: marine.