erosa, Synanceia Cuvier [G.] (ex Langsdorff) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:459, Pl. 96 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] Seas of Japan. Holotype (unique): ZMB 6490 (dry). Type catalog: Paepke & Fricke 1992:275 [ref. 19946], Matsunuma & Motomura 2021:[12] [ref. 38472]. •Valid as Erosa erosa (Cuvier 1829) [author often seen as Langsdorff] -- (Eschmeyer & Rama-Rao 1973:364 [ref. 6391], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:318 [ref. 6441], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:121 [ref. 15964], Allen & Swainston 1988:48 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:441 [ref. 12442], Motomura & Iwatsuki 1997:131 [ref. 23963], Allen 1997:76 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:169 [ref. 26476], Randall et al. 1997:502 [ref. 25919], Poss 1999:2315 [ref. 24796], Johnson 1999:727 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:598 [ref. 25086], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:605 [ref. 25122], Choi et al. 2003:559 [ref. 26218], Randall 2005:127 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:904 [ref. 29078], Fricke et al. 2011:379 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:240 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:85 [ref. 32988], Kwik & Lim 2020:20 [ref. 38869], Sonoyama et al. 2020:46 [ref. 37637], Matsunuma & Motomura 2021:[12] [ref. 38472], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:120 [ref. 41223], Allen & Erdmann 2024:258 [ref. 40796], Luo et al. 2024:9 [ref. 41630]). Current status: Valid as Erosa erosa (Cuvier 1829). Synanceiidae: Synanceiinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: eastern Indonesia and Philippines east to Tonga, north to southern Korea and central Japan (including southern Sea of Japan), south to Shark Bay (Western Australia), southern Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.