cirrhifer, Monacanthus Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1850:290, Pl. 130 (fig. 1) [Fauna Japonica Last part (15); ref. 4375] Japan. Lectotype: RMNH D1685 (stuffed). Paralectotypes: RMNH D1681-1684 (4, stuffed), D1734 (1, stuffed), 4143 (3), 4144 (8), 4145 (1); ZMB 4175 [ex RMNH] (1, stuffed), 4176 [ex RMNH] (1, stuffed), 5913 (1, dry). Type catalog: Paepke 2001:330 [ref. 25566] as cirrifer. Lectotype selected by Boeseman 1947:209 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Stephanolepis cirrhifer (Temminck & Schlegel 1850) -- (Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:359 [ref. 6441], Randall 1995:397 [ref. 22896], Chen et al. 1997:182 [ref. 26476] dated 1846, Cheng & Zhou 1997:470 [ref. 26385] dated 1846, Lindberg et al. 1997:80 [ref. 23547], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:14 [ref. 24670], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1411 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:278 [ref. 25480], Shinohara et al. 2000:183 [ref. 25987], Hutchins 2001:3946 [ref. 26316], Shimizu 2001:46 [ref. 25799], Nakabo 2002:1411 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:448, 694 [ref. 26218], Parin 2003:S33 [ref. 28536], Markevich & Balanov 2011:678 [ref. 32459], Matsuura 2014:13 [ref. 33576], Parin et al. 2014:551 [ref. 33547], Kwun et al. 2017:143 [ref. 37287], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2018:308 [ref. 36460], Kim et al. 2020:199 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:128 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Stephanolepis cirrhifer (Temminck & Schlegel 1850). Monacanthidae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Vietnam and southern China to southern Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.