vosmeri, Anthias Bloch [M. E.] 1792:120, Pl. 321 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 6; ref. 470] Japanisches Meer [Nagasaki, Japan; erroneous, probably Tranquebar (= Tharangambadi), Tamil Nadu, India]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 8729 (left skin, in 3 parts). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:105 [ref. 24282]. On p. 103 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 9 [ref. 21381]. Spelled vosmari in Bloch & Schneider 1801:304 [ref. 471]; as Lutjanus vosmaeri in Lacepède 1802:213 [ref. 4929]. See comments on type locality in Russell et al. 2022:511 [ref. 39103]. •Valid as Scolopsis vosmeri (Bloch 1792) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:95 [ref. 19754], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:175 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:146 [ref. 29757], Russell 1986:601 [ref. 5708], Allen & Swainston 1988:88 [ref. 25477], Russell 1990:122 [ref. 19228], Goren & Dor 1994:40 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:218 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:325 [ref. 27969], Chen 1997:350 [ref. 23444], Allen 1997:138 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:187 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:101 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:172 [ref. 25488], Nakabo 2000:853 [ref. 25086], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:144 [ref. 25480], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Russell 2001:3089 [ref. 26106], Nakabo 2002:853 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:41 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:37 [ref. 27712], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:247 [ref. 28072], Allen et al. 2006:1250 [ref. 29090], Barman & Mishra 2009:36 [ref. 37652], Shibukawa in Shibukawa & Motomura 2009:160 [ref. 31131], Allen & Erdmann 2012:490 [ref. 31980], Mishra et al. 2013:445 [ref. 32430], Larson et al. 2013:146 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:350 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:147 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:425 [ref. 33460], Psomadakis et al. 2015:272 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:152 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:331 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:212 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:95 [ref. 36273], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:180 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:92 [ref. 37020], Russell et al. 2019:591 [ref. 36827], Zajonz et al. 2019:80 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 28 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:487 [ref. 37272], Jawad et al. 2021:47 [ref. 38348], Russell et al. 2022:505 [ref. 39103], Russell 2022:339 [ref. 39836], Bangchongmanee et al. 2023:89 [ref. 40682]). Current status: Valid as Scolopsis vosmeri (Bloch 1792). Nemipteridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan and India east to western Indonesia, East Malaysia and Brunei. Other records based on misidentifications. Habitat: marine.