tomentosus, Balistes Linnaeus [C.] 1758:328 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] America [in error]. No types known. •Valid as Acreichthys tomentosus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Hutchins 1977:54 [ref. 2283], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:360 [ref. 6441], Allen 1997:240 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:284 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:754 [ref. 25471], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:647 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1409 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Matsuura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:319 [ref. 27511], Hutchins 2001:3936 [ref. 26316], Nakabo 2002:1409 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:64 [ref. 26830], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:221 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:32 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:632 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1881 [ref. 29098], Matsuura 2009:329 [ref. 31171], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1069 [ref. 31980]. Larson et al. 2013:232 [ref. 32988], Matsuura 2014:11 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2014:194 [ref. 33932], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2015:101 [ref. 34319], Moazzam & Osmany 2016:1 [ref. 39994], Fricke et al. 2019:326 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:610 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:295 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Acreichthys tomentosus (Linnaeus 1758). Monacanthidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.