apus, Chaunax Lloyd [R. E.] 1909:169 [Memoirs of the Indian Museum v. 2 (no. 3); ref. 2814] Bay of Bengal, off Akyab coast, Myanmar, Investigator station 379, depth 530 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F2404/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:163 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:47 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Lloyd 1909: Pl. 45 (fig. 6) [ref. 20539]. •Synonym of the younger Chaunax endeavouri Whitley 1929 -- (Le Danois 1979:18 [ref. 6972]). •Mention -- (Lindberg et al. 1997:228 [ref. 23547]). •Valid as Chaunax apus Lloyd 1909 -- (Caruso 1989:160 [ref. 9287], Ho & Last 2013:444 [ref. 32892], Ho et al. 2015:307 [ref. 33915], Ho et al. 2016:135 [ref. 34379], Ho & Ma 2016:190 [ref. 34612], Fricke et al. 2018:89 [ref. 35805], Koizumi & Tashiro 2020:204 [ref. 38082], Psomadakis et al. 2020:330 [ref. 37272], Ho & Caruso 2022:299 [ref. 39711], Ho & Ma 2022:177 [ref. 39629]). Current status: Valid as Chaunax apus Lloyd 1909. Chaunacidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and East Africa to Madagascar, Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan, South China Sea, Japan. Habitat: marine.