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brachylepis, Tripterygion Schultz [L. P.] in Schultz et al. 1960:291, Fig. 113 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 2; ref. 3972] Coral heads in eastern end of Lagoon, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, western Pacific, depth 20-25 feet. Holotype (unique): USNM 142253. Type catalog: Springer & Orrell 1996:25 [ref. 22274]. •Valid as Norfolkia brachylepis (Schultz 1960) -- (Fricke 1991:340 [ref. 19545], Holleman 1991:233 [ref. 21794], Fricke 1994:465 [ref. 21827], Shen 1994:23 [ref. 21605], Goren & Dor 1994:61 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:34 [ref. 21853], Randall 1995:310 [ref. 22896], Fricke 1997:504, 583 [ref. 23339], Allen 1997:212 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:522 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:217 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:24 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Fricke & Williams in Randall & Lim 2000:632 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1077 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:41 [ref. 25847], Fricke 2001:3 [ref. 25985], Williams & Fricke 2001:3535 [ref. 26288], Nakabo 2002:1077 [ref. 26193], Fricke 2002:194 [ref. 29865], Allen & Adrim 2003:53 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S116 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:639 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:24 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:387 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:478 [ref. 28239], Hoese 2006:1526 [ref. 28998], Gomon 2008:690 [ref. 30616], Fricke 2009:34 [ref. 30394], Patzner et al. 2009:448 [ref. 30396], Motomura et al. 2010:189 [ref. 31256], Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012:58 [ref. 31735], Allen & Erdmann 2012:781 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:147 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2015:28 [ref. 34709], Fricke et al. 2018:306 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:144 [ref. 36273], Akaike et al. 2021:25 [ref. 38809], Wada et al. 2021:46 [ref. 38521], Esmaeili et al. 2022:32 [41] [ref. 39526], Holleman 2022:430 [ref. 39961], Allen & Erdmann 2024:856 [ref. 40796], Golani & Fricke 2026:122 [ref. 42831]). Current status: Valid as Norfolkia brachylepis (Schultz 1960). Tripterygiidae: Tripterygiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Comoros and Madagascar east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to New Caledonia. IUCN (2014): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.

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