praecisus, Cynoglossus Alcock [A. W.] 1890:442 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 6 (no. 36) (art. 52); ref. 86] Off Ganjam coast, 10 miles east-southeast of Kawita, Investigator station 79, depth 33 fathoms. Syntypes: (2) ZSI F12893 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:160 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:46 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Alcock 1898: Pl. 23 (fig. 6) [ref. 20534]. •Synonym of Cynoglossus kopsii (Bleeker 1851) -- (Menon 1977:42 [ref. 7071], Munroe 2022:375 [ref. 40234]). •Valid as Cynoglossus praecisus Alcock 1890 -- (Wang et al. 2016:140 [ref. 34517], Psomadakis et al. 2020:601 [ref. 37272] as cf. praecisus, Allen & Erdmann 2024:1365 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Cynoglossus praecisus Alcock 1890. Cynoglossidae: Cynoglossinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: eastern coast of India. Habitat: marine.