evides, Thysanichthys Jordan [D. S.] & Thompson [W. F.] 1914:272, Pl. 32 (fig. 3) [Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 6 (no. 4); ref. 2543] Misaki, Japan. Holotype: FMNH 57082 [ex CM 6019a]. Paratypes: CAS-SU 22611 (5). Type catalog: Henn 1928:93 [ref. 12305], Böhlke 1953:124 [ref. 12291], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:83 [ref. 12367]. •Probably a senior synonym of Scorpaenodes littoralis Tanaka 1917 -- (Poss et al. 2010:242 [ref. 30744], Larson et al. 2013:82 [ref. 32988]). •Valid as Scorpaenodes evides (Jordan & Thompson 1914) -- (Motomura et al. 2010:71 [ref. 31103], Allen & Erdmann 2012:229 [ref. 31980], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:112 [ref. 36167], Motomura & Struthers 2015:1100 [ref. 34285], Motomura et al. 2015:18 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:3 [ref. 35354], Golani & Fricke 2018:54 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:68 [ref. 36871], Kim et al. 2020:93 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37637], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:117 [ref. 41223], Poss & Motomura 2022:532 [ref. 39725], Murase et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40935], Allen & Erdmann 2024:247 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Scorpaenodes evides (Jordan & Thompson 1914). Scorpaenidae: Scorpaeninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Aliwal Shoal (South Africa), East Africa and Socotra (Yemen) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan), south to Australia, New Zealand, Kermadec Islands and east to Rapa and French Polynesia. [True evides may be restricted to Japan and Taiwan [ref. 31103]]. Habitat: marine.