peterseni, Dactylopterus Nyström [E.] 1887:24 [Bihang till Kongl. Svenska vetenskaps-akademiens handlingar. Stockholm v. 13 (pt 4) No. 4; ref. 14475] Nagasaki, Japan. Syntypes: ZMUU 273 (2). Type catalog: Wallin 1996:61 [ref. 32133]. •Valid as Daicocus peterseni (Nyström 1887) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:338 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:279 [ref. 19754], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:336 [ref. 6441], Yatou in Okamura et al. 1985:605, 732 [ref. 8056], Chen et al. 1997:174 [ref. 26476] dated 1908, Lindberg et al. 1997:13 [ref. 23547], Nakabo 2000:678 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:313 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:678 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:241, 558 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:424 [ref. 28370], Shinohara et al. 2014:247 [ref. 33330], Sonoyama et al. 2020:51 [ref. 37637]). •Valid as Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström 1887) -- (Dor 1984:92 [ref. 29757], Eschmeyer 1986:490 [ref. 5652], Allen & Swainston 1988:44 [ref. 25477] with genus as Dactyloptaenia, Baranes & Golani 1993:306 [ref. 22372], Goren & Dor 1994:23 [ref. 25356], Eschmeyer 1997:733 [ref. 22973], Fricke 1999:169 [ref. 24106], Poss & Eschmeyer 1999:2289 [ref. 24795], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:29 [ref. 25847], Parin et al. 2002:S64 [ref. 28300], Allen & Adrim 2003:30 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:618 [ref. 27495], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:153 [ref. 28072], Paxton et al. 2006:865 [ref. 28995], Fricke et al. 2009:38 [ref. 30213], Larson et al. 2013:80 [ref. 32988], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:417 [ref. 33460], Parin et al. 2014:211 [ref. 33547], Motomura et al. 2017:76 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:129 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:59 [ref. 36273], Kim et al. 2020:89 [ref. 39118], Farooq & Muhammad 2022:635 [ref. 39291], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:133 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:602 [ref. 39724], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:560 [ref. 40712], Endruweit 2024:54 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström 1887). Dactylopteridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Saya de Malha Bank, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Philippines, north to southern Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.