coccineus, Minous Alcock [A. W.] 1890:428 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 6 (no. 36) (art. 52); ref. 86] Off Ganjam coast, 8 miles east-southeast of Kalingapatnam Light, India [Orissa State, India, Bay of Bengal, eastern Indian Ocean], Investigator station 90, depth 28-30 fathoms. Syntypes: ZSI F12924 (2). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:154 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:43 [ref. 22148]. •Valid as Minous coccineus Alcock 1890 -- (Eschmeyer et al. 1979:465 [ref. 1277], Dor 1984:87 [ref. 29757], Eschmeyer 1986:465 [ref. 5652], Paxton et al. 1989:443 [ref. 12442], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:219 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:21 [ref. 25356], Poss 1999:2307 [ref. 24796], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:605 [ref. 25122], Mandrytsa 2001:273 [ref. 25636], Hutchins 2001:27 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S102 [ref. 27377], Allen et al. 2006:905 [ref. 29078], Motomura 2009:73 [ref. 30446], Allen & Erdmann 2012:243 [ref. 31980], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:416 [ref. 33460], Matsunuma et al. 2017:[4] 1290 [ref. 35795], Golani & Fricke 2018:57 [ref. 36273], Matsunuma & Motomura 2018:251 [ref. 36053], Psomadakis et al. 2020:365 [ref. 37272], Naranji et al. 2022:[3] 414 [ref. 39305], Poss 2022:572 [ref. 39726], Rashed et al. 2022:220 [ref. 40249], Allen & Erdmann 2024:261 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Minous coccineus Alcock 1890. Synanceiidae: Choridactylinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and East Africa east to Philippines, north to Taiwan. IUCN (2018): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.