indica, Halieutaea Annandale [N.] & Jenkins [J. T.] 1910:19, Pl. 2 (fig. 4) [Memoirs of the Indian Museum v. 3 (no. 1); ref. 10427] Bay of Bengal, off Orissa coast, India. Syntypes: ZMA 112980 (1), ZSI F2207/1 (1), 4142/1 (1), 4143/1 (1), 4145/1 (1), 2205/1 (1), 2206/1 (1), 3545/1 (1), 4192/1 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:164 [ref. 20743], Nijssen et al. 1982:64 [ref. 19236]. Based on literature citation and specimens. •In Halieutaea -- (Bradbury 1967:413 [ref. 23209]). •Synonym of Halieutaea coccinea Alcock 1889 -- (Lindberg et al. 1997:239 [ref. 23547]). •Valid as Halieutaea indica Annandale & Jenkins 1910 -- (Kailola 1971:131 [ref. 39475], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:218 [ref. 24016] as Halieutea, Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Nakabo 2000:466 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:466 [ref. 26001], Bradbury 2003:5 [ref. 27309], Ho & Shao 2008:299 [ref. 30133], Psomadakis et al. 2015:175 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:91 [ref. 35805], Prokofiev 2019:629 [ref. 37246], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:333 [ref. 37272], Prokofiev 2020:334 [ref. 37735], Rajeeshkumar et al. 2020:81 [ref. 38865], Owfi et al. 2021:7 [ref. 38918], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:99 [ref. 41223], Golani et al. 2022:102 [ref. 39213], Ho & Anderson 2022:303 [ref. 39712], Luo et al. 2024:9 [ref. 41630]). Current status: Valid as Halieutaea indica Annandale & Jenkins 1910. Ogcocephalidae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles and Madagascar east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.