cultellatus, Platycephalus Richardson [J.] 1846:217 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Canton, China. No types known. Based solely on illustration by Reeves (see Whitehead 1970:211, Pl. 21a [ref. 11606]). •Valid as Platycephalus cultellatus Richardson 1846 -- (Imamura 1996:199 [ref. 22700], Imamura et al. 2006:296 [ref. 28670], Imamura 2012:119 [ref. 33646], Imamura 2015:204 [ref. 33640], Imamura in Kimura et al. 2015:33 [ref. 34319], Chen et al. 2018:4 [ref. 36351], Imamura in Kimura et al. 2018:88 [ref. 36460], Taki et al. 2021:353 [ref. 39830]). Current status: Valid as Platycephalus cultellatus Richardson 1846. Platycephalidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India east to Borneo. north to northern Vietnam and southern China. Habitat: marine.