nasuta, Malthe Cuvier [G.] 1829:252 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] No locality. Valenciennes specimens: MNHN A-4665 (1) [Martinique], A-4765 (1) [Saint Domingue = Haiti & Dominican Republic?], A-4766 (1) [New York - an error], 5257 to 5258 (1, 1). Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:145 [ref. 6339] dating to Valenciennes 1837 with syntypes A.4765-66 (2) and 5257-58 (2) and A.4665 (1). Available from footnote as, "Malth. nasuta, N., Séb. I, lxxiv, 2." Also appeared in Valenciennes 1837:452 [ref. 1006]. •Valid as Ogcocephalus nasutus (Cuvier 1829) [authorship sometimes as Valenciennes 1837] -- (Bradbury 1967:417 [ref. 23209], Bradbury 1980:251 [ref. 6538], Uyeno & Aizawa in Uyeno et al. 1983:253 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:90 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1991:196 [ref. 24472], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:842 [ref. 23897], Aguilera 1998:47 [ref. 24221], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:153 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], Bradbury 2003:9 [ref. 27309], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:64 [ref. 27192] dating to 1837, Smith et al. 2003:13 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:96 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:98 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:30 [ref. 33341], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:681 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:86 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:164 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ogcocephalus nasutus (Cuvier 1829). Ogcocephalidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to southeastern Brazil, including northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.