schlegelii, Emmelichthys Richardson [J.] 1846:272 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Nagasaki, Japan. No types known. Based on Erythrichthys Temminck & Schlegel 1845:117, Pl. 63 (fig. 1). •Valid as Erythrocles schlegelii (Richardson 1846) -- (Heemstra & Randall 1977:372 [ref. 7057], Tameka in Okamura et al. 1982:237, 381 [ref. 8256], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:160 [ref. 6441], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:501, 684 [ref. 8056], Heemstra 1986:638 [ref. 5660], Randall 1995:196 [ref. 22896], Chen et al. 1997:89 [ref. 26476], Miyahara & Okamura 1998:88 [ref. 23345], Nakabo 2000:818 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:325 [ref. 25995], Carpenter 2001:2839 [ref. 26098], Miyahara et al. 2002:38 [ref. 26146], Nakabo 2002:818 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:336, 610 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:298 [ref. 28072], Shinohara et al. 2005:434 [ref. 28370], Randall 2007:244 [ref. 30952], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715], Larson et al. 2013:129 [ref. 32988], Shinohara et al. 2014:262 [ref. 33330], Psomadakis et al. 2015:238 [ref. 34104], Kim et al. 2020:131 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:444 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:68 [ref. 37637], Coulson & Moore 2021:[C] [ref. 38625], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:183 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:27 [ref. 39870], Balisco et al. 2023:5 [ref. 39932], Sakurai et al. 2024:75 [ref. 41426]). Current status: Valid as Erythrocles schlegelii (Richardson 1846). Emmelichthyidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and East Africa north to Oman; Ryukyu Islands (Japan) to southern Korea and Miyagi Prefecture (Japan); Western Australia. Habitat: marine.