minutum, Tripterygium Günther [A.] 1877:211, Pl. 118 (fig. D) [Journal des Museum Godeffroy v. 4 (no. 13); ref. 14243] Apia, Upolu Island, Western Samoa. Lectotype: BMNH 1961.10.20.1. Paralectotype: BMNH 1873.4.3.218 (1). Lectotype selected by Fricke 1994:245 [ref. 21827]. Original genus should have been Tripterygion. •Synonym of Enneapterygius philippinus (Peters 1868) -- (Fricke 1997:274, 570 [ref. 23339], Randall 2005:473 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:345 [ref. 28867], Hoese 2006:1522 [ref. 28998], Fricke 2009:41 [ref. 30394], Motomura et al. 2010:184 [ref. 31256], Larson et al. 2013:178 [ref. 32988], Holleman 2022:417 [ref. 39961]). •Valid as Enneapterygius minutus (Günther 1877) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:294 [ref. 6441], Fricke 1987:336 [ref. 9108], Fricke 1994:242 [ref. 21827], Shen 1994:14 [ref. 21605], Fricke 1994:4 [ref. 21828], Myers 1999:216 [ref. 23965], Fricke & Williams in Randall & Lim 2000:632 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1081 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:116 [ref. 25868], Dewa et al. 2023:344 [ref. 40596]). Current status: Valid as Enneapterygius minutus (Günther 1877). Tripterygiidae: Tripterygiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar, Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues), Mozambique, north to Taiwan and Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia, east to Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa and Kiribati. Habitat: marine.