lepturus, Congrus Richardson [J.] 1845:106, Pl. 56 (figs. 1-6) [Ichthyology.--Part 3. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur.; ref. 20575] Canton, China [Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, South China Sea]. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1978.3.1.1. •Valid as Uroconger lepturus (Richardson 1845) -- (Dor 1984:34 [ref. 29757], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:29 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:97, 320 [ref. 8057], Castle 1986:165 [ref. 5644], Paxton et al. 1989:143 [ref. 12442], Smith 1989:546 [ref. 13285], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:216 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:8 [ref. 25356], Chen et al. 1997:19 [ref. 26476] dated 1844, Smith 1999:1686 [ref. 24661], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:234 [ref. 24754], Mishra et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25315], Lee & Joo 1999:28 [ref. 25724], Nakabo 2000:231 [ref. 25086], Smith in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:294 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:231 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:146, 495 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:18 [ref. 27712], Shinohara et al. 2005:401 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:142 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Gates 2006:297 [ref. 28997], Imamura 2009:23 [ref. 30434], Zhang et al. 2010:216 [ref. 31511], Larson et al. 2013:30 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:26 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:411 [ref. 33460], Psomadakis et al. 2015:150 [ref. 34104] as cf. lepturus, Ho et al. 2015:149 [ref. 34130], Motomura et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:305 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:50 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:26 [ref. 36273], Hibino in Kimura et al. 2018:30 [ref. 36460], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:57 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:285 [ref. 37272] as cf. lepturus, Ramos-Castro et al. 2021:517 [ref. 38842], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:63 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Uroconger lepturus (Richardson 1845). Congridae: Congrinae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Madagascar east to Philippines, north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to northern Australia; Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.
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