scopas, Balistes Cuvier [G.] 1829:373 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] [No locality stated] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. Type catalog: Beaunier et al. 2009:298 [ref. 28887]. Available from footnote, based on Lacepède 1798, Pl. 17 (fig. 3). •Valid as Amanses scopas (Cuvier 1829) -- (Hutchins 1977:54 [ref. 2283], Dor 1984:278 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:360 [ref. 6441], Hutchins 1986:883 [ref. 5673], Randall et al. 1990:461 [ref. 15987], Manilo 1992:24 [134] [ref. 39140], Goren & Dor 1994:73 [ref. 25356], Lindberg et al. 1997:69 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:240 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:461 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:284 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:590 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:647 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1406 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:459 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:270 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:47 [ref. 25847], Hutchins 2001:3937 [ref. 26316], Nakabo 2002:1406 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:64 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:222 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:32 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:632 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1882 [ref. 29098], Fricke et al. 2009:118 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:330 [ref. 31171], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1070 [ref. 31980], Matsuura 2014:11 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2014:195 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:380 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:179 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:327 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:611 [ref. 37272], Hutchins 2022:431 [ref. 40252]). Current status: Valid as Amanses scopas (Cuvier 1829). Monacanthidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Saya de Malha Bank, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (Ra Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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