trachinoides, Apistus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:401, Pl. 92 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-4610 to 4611 (3), 0000-6643 (2) Jakarta; ?RMNH 708 (1), 28736 [or 28789] [ex RMNH 708] (1); ?SMF 497 [ex RMNH in 1829] (1). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:7 [ref. 20738]. •Valid as Vespicula trachinoides (Cuvier 1829) -- (Poss 1999:2352 [ref. 24796], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Mandrytsa 2001:277 [ref. 25636], Prokofiev 2008:306 [ref. 29592], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:65 [ref. 35264], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2015:29 [ref. 34319], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:80 [ref. 36460], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:311 [ref. 40698]). •Valid as Trichosomus trachinoides (Cuvier 1929) -- (Kottelat 2013:316 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:81 [ref. 34464], Kwik & Lim 2020:18 [ref. 38869]). Current status: Valid as Trichosomus trachinoides (Cuvier 1829). Synanceiidae: Tetraroginae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Myanmar east to Indonesia, north to northern Vietnam and southern China. Habitat: marine.