roseus, Cocotropus Day [F.] 1875:160, Pl. 38 (fig. 8) [The fishes of India Part 1; ref. 1080] Coromandel coast of India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: BMNH 1889.2.1.3198 (1) 1889.2.1.4292 (1, dry); MZUF 2376 (1); NMW 82985 (1); RMNH 993 (1); ZMB 9570 (1), 9889 (1); ZSI 1737 (1), 2780 (, lost), 2910 (1, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:159 [ref. 23762], Paepke & Fricke 1992:276 [ref. 19946]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Cocotropus roseus Day 1875 -- (Poss & Eschmeyer 1978:405 [ref. 6387], Poss & Allen 1987:79 [ref. 6616], Imamura & Shinohara 2003:233 [ref. 27213], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Fricke 2004:2 [ref. 27662], Johnson 2004:179 [ref. 27781], Prokofiev 2010:723 [ref. 31093], Ray & Mohapatra 2018:437 [ref. 36555], Kodeeswaran et al. 2021:[2] [ref. 38326], Matsunuma et al. 2021:Table 2 [ref. 38266], Poss 2022:561 [ref. 39726]). Current status: Valid as Cocotropus roseus Day 1875. Synanceiidae: Aploactininae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: Maldives, Sri Lanka and east coast of India. Habitat: marine.