praematurus, Hemiramphus Schindler [O.] 1930:79 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 67 (no. 9); ref. 16328] Pearl and Hermes Reef, Hawaiian Islands. Syntypes: (several hundred) BPBM 3484-85 (3, 4); NMW 78427 (58), 84188 (?), 86241 (?), 86243 (?), 86871 (7). Also appeared in Schindler 1932:5, Pl. 1 (figs. A, 1-2) [ref. 31989]. •Valid as Schindleria praematura (Schindler 1930) -- (Ida in Masuda et al. 1984:309 [ref. 6441], Johnson & Brothers 1993:441 [ref. 21803], Myers 1999:264 [ref. 23965], Leu et al. 1999:72 [ref. 24098], Yound & Chiu 2000:127 [ref. 25054], Larson in Randall & Lim 2000:635 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:42 [ref. 25847], Larson 2001:3609 [ref. 26296], Watson & Walker 2004:139 [ref. 27773], Mundy 2005:484 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:1712 [ref. 29000], Randall 2007:412 [ref. 30952], Kon et al. 2011:62 [ref. 31622], Fourriére et al. 2016:450 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Fricke & Abu El-Regal 2017:7 [1889] [ref. 35135], Fricke & Abu El-Regal 2017:[4] [35704], Fricke et al. 2018:346 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:166 [ref. 36273], Ahnelt & Sauberer 2018:100 [ref. 36360], Abu El-Regal & Kon 2019:76 [ref. 36579], Al-Solami & Abu El-Regal 2019:31 [ref. 37926], Ahnelt & Sauberer 2020:453 [ref. 37294], Ahnelt 2020:205 [ref. 37500], Abu El-Regal et al. 2021:4 [ref. 38558], Ahnelt et al. 2022:556 [ref. 39483], Larson 2022:202 [ref. 40141], Ahnelt et al. 2023:315 [ref. 40126], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:28 [ref. 40247], Robitzch et al. 2023:37 [ref. 40538]). Current status: Valid as Schindleria praematura (Schindler 1930). Schindleriidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Madagascar and Lakshadweep (India) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), ? Sala-y-Gomez Ridge and Nazca Ridge (southeastern Pacific), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and New South Wales (Australia); Revillagigedo Archipelago (Mexico). Habitat: marine.