pristiger, Platycephalus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:260 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 4; ref. 998] New Guinea; Sulawesi, Indonesia. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-4165 (1) New Guinea, 0000-6855 (1) New Guinea, 0000-6849 (1) Sulawesi, ?0000-6850 (1) New Caledonia, 0000-6856 (1) Sulawesi. Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1968:45 [ref. 20738]. •Valid as Rogadius pristiger (Cuvier 1829) -- (Krishnan & Mishra 1993:220 [ref. 24016], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:279 [ref. 24014], Randall 1995:118 [ref. 22896], Imamura 1996:216 [ref. 22700], Carpenter et al. 1997:141 [ref. 23922], Knapp 1999:2412 [ref. 24807], Knapp in Randall & Lim 2000:608 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:28 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:11 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:133 [ref. 28239], Imamura et al. 2006:297 [ref. 28670], Paxton et al. 2006:945 [ref. 29079], Imamura 2007:303 [ref. 29242], Imamura 2009:76 [ref. 30434], Fricke et al. 2011:382 [ref. 31242], Knapp 2012:62 [ref. 31852], Allen & Erdmann 2012:256 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:92 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:91 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:56 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:140 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:59 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:127 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:108 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 29 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:376 [ref. 37272], Knapp 2022:590 [ref. 39727], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:573 [ref. 40712], Vilasri et al. 2023:78 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Rogadius pristiger (Cuvier 1829). Platycephalidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.