elegans, Tripterygium Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1876:441 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876; ref. 18495] Mauritius [Île aux Fouquets, 8 kilometers east of Mahébourg, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean]. Lectotype: ZMB 9465. Paralectotypes: ZMB 32770 [ex ZMB 9465] (2). Original genus should have been Tripterygion. •Valid as Enneapterygius elegans (Peters 1876) -- (Holleman 1986:756 [ref. 5671], Fricke 1987:336 [ref. 9108], Fricke & Randall 1992:3 [ref. 20288], Fricke 1994:203 [ref. 21827], Fricke 1997:179, 566 [ref. 23339], Randall et al. 1997:521 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:467 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Shimojyo & Hayashi 2000:46 [ref. 24903], Fricke & Williams in Randall & Lim 2000:632 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1084 [ref. 25182], Fricke 2001:5 [ref. 25985], Williams & Fricke 2001:3534 [ref. 26288] dated 1877, Nakabo 2002:1084 [ref. 26193], Fricke 2002:182 [ref. 29865], Allen & Adrim 2003:53 [ref. 26830] dated 1877, Randall et al. 2004:24 [ref. 27624] dated 1877, Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:471 [ref. 28239], Holleman 2005:8 [ref. 28455], Hoese 2006:1520 [ref. 28998], Chiang & Chen 2008:194 [ref. 29932] dated 1877, Fricke 2009:38 [ref. 30394], Fricke et al. 2009:93 [ref. 30213], Patzner et al. 2009:445 [ref. 30396], Allen & Erdmann 2012:765 [ref. 31980], Fricke & Erdmann 2017:28 [ref. 35129], Fricke et al. 2018:304 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:31 [ref. 36883], Holleman 2022:413 [ref. 39961], Fricke et al. 2024:88 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Enneapterygius elegans (Peters 1876). Tripterygiidae: Tripterygiinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Samoa and Tonga, south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.