vipera, Trachinus Cuvier [G.] 1829:152 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Northern England. No types known. See also Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:254 [ref. 4879]. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:45 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Trachinus vipera Cuvier 1829 -- (Wheeler 1973:450 [ref. 7190], Roux 1990:895 [ref. 18781]). •Valid as Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier 1829) -- (Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:951 [ref. 13676], Nash & Santos 1993:317 [ref. 36602], Santos et al. 1997:98 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:97 [ref. 24952], Fricke 1999:44 [ref. 24101], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:117 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:51 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:27 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:95 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:56 [ref. 36649], Smith in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2772 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:558 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:291 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:96 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:43 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:80 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:69 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:82 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:291 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier 1829). Trachinidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Morocco, including Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal) and Canary Islands (Spain). Habitat: marine.