uradoi, Halimochirus Kamohara [T.] 1933:389 [English p. 392], Figs. 1-3 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 45 (no. 539); ref. 19715] Mimase, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Kamohara "neotype": BSKU 9406. Type catalog: Kamohara 1961:5-6 [ref. 19282], but neotype designation was not made in a revisory work and is invalid. Generic name should have been Halimochirurgus. "Neotype" designation: Kamohara 1961:5-6 [ref. 19282], but neotype designation was not made in a revisory work and is invalid. Tyler's 1968:208 [ref. 6438] mention of Kamohara's neotype is not regarded as establishing a neotype. •Valid as Macrorhamphosodes uradoi (Kamohara 1933) -- (Tyler 1968:194 [ref. 6438], Amaoka in Okamura et al. 1982:303, 409 [ref. 8256], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:357 [ref. 6441], Matsuura in Okamura et al. 1985:625, 742 [ref. 8056], Tyler 1986:889 [ref. 5723], Matsuura 1987:105 [ref. 6710], Paulin et al. 1989:242 [ref. 24556], Matsuura in Amaoka et al. 1990:330 [ref. 16024], Matsuura & Tyler 1997:178 [ref. 23219], Orr & Fritzsche 1997:888 [ref. 23269], Adam et al. 1998:16 [ref. 23610], Nakabo 2000:1393 [ref. 25182], Matsuura 2001:3904 [ref. 26315], Shinohara et al. 2001:337 [ref. 25995], Nakae & Sasaki 2002:7 [ref. 25980], Nakabo 2002:1393 [ref. 26193], Shinohara et al. 2005:443 [ref. 28370], Hoese et al. 2006:1863 [ref. 29067], Shao et al. 2008:265 [ref. 29952], Shinohara et al. 2014:278 [ref. 33330], Matsuura 2014:4 [ref. 33576], Stewart 2015:1713 [ref. 34196], Fricke et al. 2018:374 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:320 [ref. 36673], Misawa et al. 2020:278 [ref. 38138], Koeda et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38857], Matsuura 2022:410 [ref. 40250]). Current status: Valid as Macrorhamphosodes uradoi (Kamohara 1933). Triacanthodidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape (South Africa), East Africa (Kenya) and Madagascar east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Japan, south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.