rueppelii, Peloria Cocco [A.] 1844:29 [9], Fig. 4 [Giornale del Gabinetto Letterario di Messina Anno 3, Tomo 5; ref. 866] Messina, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. On p. 9 of separate. Originally spelled Rüppelii, Kullander 2016:94 [ref. 34436]. •Valid as Arnoglossus rueppelii (Cocco 1844) -- [but sometimes spelled differently, e.g., ruppellii or rueppelli] (Nielsen 1973:622 [ref. 6885], Nielsen in Whitehead et al. 1986:1296 [ref. 13677], Klausewitz 1989:262 [ref. 13650], Aldebert et al. 1990:1029 [ref. 19526], Golani 1996:28 [ref. 22271], Santos et al. 1997:112 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:119 [ref. 24952], Evseenko 1998:59 [ref. 23643], Uiblein et al. 1999:66 [ref. 24045] as rueppelii, Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:150 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:62 [ref. 37112] as rueppelli, Fricke et al. 2007:115 [ref. 29533] as rueppelii, Lipej & Dulčić 2010:73 [ref. 36649] as rueppelli, Goren & Galil 2015:509 [ref. 33910], Munroe in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2983 [ref. 34618], Fricke et al. 2017:3, 8 [ref. 35674], Martins & Carneiro 2018:79 [ref. 36550], Carneiro et al. 2019:189 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:99 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:27 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:85 [ref. 38303] as rueppelli, Kovačić et al. 2021:45 [ref. 39014], Fricke et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40065]). Current status: Valid as Arnoglossus rueppelii (Cocco 1844). Bothidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Western Sahara, including Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.