talabonoides, Conger Bleeker [P.] 1852:20 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 25 (art. 5); ref. 339] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Bleeker specimens: BMNH 1867.11.28.245 (1), NMV 46509 (1). Original as talabonoïdes. •Valid as Muraenesox talabonoides (Bleeker 1852) -- (Chen et al. 1997:20 [ref. 26476] dated 1857, Zhang et al. 2010:295 [ref. 31511]). •Valid as Congresox talabonoides (Bleeker 1852) -- (Dor 1984:31 [ref. 29757] as talabanoides, Ataur Rahman 1989:48 [ref. 24860] as telabonoides, Talwar & Jhingran 1991:89 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:9 [ref. 23448], Goren & Dor 1994:7 [ref. 25356] as talabanoides, Smith 1999:1676 [ref. 24661], Smith in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Ataur Rahman 2003:63 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:48 [ref. 32989] dated 1852, Psomadakis et al. 2015:150 [ref. 34104], Golani & Fricke 2018:24 [ref. 36273], Suresh et al. 2018:58 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:17 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 5 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:279 [ref. 37272], Smith 2022:97 [ref. 39684]). Current status: Valid as Congresox talabonoides (Bleeker 1852). Muraenesocidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Persian Gulf east to Philippines, north to Taiwan. Habitat: brackish, marine.