lanceolatus, Orthagoriscus Liénard [E.] 1840:291 [Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne (Paris) v. 3; ref. 17537] Port Louis, Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. See Parenti 2003:1 [ref. 27311] for comments on status and synonymy. Kottelat (2013) sites an inland record from Borneo, Malaysia. •Valid as Mola lanceolata (Liénard 1840) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:310 [ref. 23100], Scott in Fischer et al. 1995:1276 [ref. 22829], Pequeño 1997:84 [ref. 23536], Balart et al. 2000:156 [ref. 25095], Santini & Tyler 2002:38 [ref. 25998], Matsuura 2003:2015 [ref. 27119], Nelson et al. 2004:186 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:191 [ref. 32708], Pillai et al. 2025:565 [ref. 42553]). •Valid as Mola lanceolatus (Liénard 1840) -- (Nair et al. 2024:86 [ref. 41812]). •Valid as Masturus lanceolatus (Liénard 1840) -- (Dawson 1965:86 [ref. 42277], Dor 1984:288 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:366 [ref. 6441], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1348 [ref. 13677], Kan 1986:550 [ref. 6313], Heemstra 1986:907 [ref. 5660], Tortonese 1990:1077 [ref. 18658], Gomon et al. 1994:916 [ref. 22532], Goren & Dor 1994:75 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:630 [ref. 27969], Santos et al. 1997:116 [ref. 23531], Lindberg et al. 1997:183 [ref. 23547], Arruda 1997:124 [ref. 24952], Fricke 1999:614 [ref. 24106], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:649 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1435 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Hutchins 2001:3967 [ref. 26319], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:603 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:1435 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:461, 702 [ref. 26218], Parenti 2003:1 [ref. 27311], Myers & Donaldson 2003:651 [ref. 27495], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:111 [ref. 27192], Mundy 2005:539 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:940 [ref. 28815], Bray & Hoese 2006:1937 [ref. 29049], Bray 2008:859 [ref. 30620], Fricke et al. 2009:124 [ref. 30213], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Wirtz et al. 2013:137 [ref. 32972], Kottelat 2013:481 [ref. 32989], Stewart & Struthers 2015:1746 [ref. 34300], Pinheiro et al. 2015:36 [ref. 34324], Matsuura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3081 [ref. 34618], Katayama & Matsuura 2016:96 [ref. 34881], Nión et al. 2016:56 [ref. 35565] with author as Lienard and dated 1841, Golani & Fricke 2018:184 [ref. 36273], Babu et al. 2019:299 [ref. 39472], Carneiro et al. 2019:222 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:312 [ref. 38139], Kim et al. 2020:207 [ref. 39118], Moreno-Méndez et al. 2020:103 [ref. 37349], Psomadakis et al. 2020:628 [ref. 37272], Sawai 2020:6 [ref. 38497], Sonoyama et al. 2020:135 [ref. 37637], Sawai 2021:1 [ref. 38499], Fermon et al. 2022:305 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Heemstra 2022:481 [ref. 40308], Sawai & Minemizu 2022:45 [ref. 39319], Carvalho-Filho 2023:288 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:168 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:677 [ref. 41622], Victor et al. 2024:82 [ref. 42021], Koerber 2025:9 [ref. 42329], Pillai et al. 2025:565 [ref. 42553]). Current status: Valid as Masturus lanceolatus (Liénard 1840). Molidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Timor Sea, Arafura Sea, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea, Gulf of California/Mexico). IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.
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