purpureus, Ateleopus Tanaka [S.] 1915:565 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 27 (no. 325); ref. 4324] Off Minatomachi, near Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZUMT (lost). Species originally published in Japanese in above reference, later illustrated and described in more detail in English and Japanese in Tanaka 1915:396, Pl. 107 (fig. 328) [ref. 14937]. •Valid as Ateleopus purpureus Tanaka 1915 -- (Okamura in Okamura et al. 1982:115 [ref. 8256], Okamura in Okamura et al. 1985:439, 653 [ref. 8056], Nakabo 2000:347 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:591 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:299 [ref. 25995], Chen 2002:274 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:347 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2005:407 [ref. 28370], Shinohara et al. 2014:238 [ref. 33330]). •Synonym of Ateleopus japonicus Bleeker 1853 -- (Kaga et al. 2015:392 [ref. 33987], Kaga 2017:584 [ref. 35175]). Current status: Synonym of Ateleopus japonicus Bleeker 1853. Ateleopodidae. Habitat: marine.