emeryii, Mesoprion Richardson [J.] 1843:7, Pl. 3 (fig. 2) [Icones piscium, or plates of rare fishes; ref. 6537] Barrow Islands, northwestern Australia. Neotype: AMS IB.1549. Originally Mesoprion ??. Neotype designation not researched, not designated here. •Valid as Pentapodus emeryii (Richardson 1843) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:88 [ref. 25477], Russell 1990:84 [ref. 19228], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:320 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:138 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:168 [ref. 25488], Machida & Hiramatsu 1999:53 [ref. 24161], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:620 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Russell 2001:3084 [ref. 26106], Russell 2001:55 [ref. 26651], Allen & Adrim 2003:40 [ref. 26830] as emeryi, Allen et al. 2006:1246 [ref. 29090], Shao et al. 2008:253 [ref. 29952], Allen & Erdmann 2009:285 [ref. 30093], Allen & Erdmann 2012:481 [ref. 31980], Allen et al. 2018:86 [ref. 36276], Fricke et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Pentapodus emeryii (Richardson 1843). Nemipteridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), south to northern Western Australia. Habitat: marine.