heudelotii, Aluterus Hollard [H. L. G. M.] 1855:13 [Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris (Zoologie) (Sér. 4) v. 4; ref. 19529] Senegal. Holotype (unique): MNHN B-1947. Type catalog: Le Danois 1961:527 [ref. 21538], Beaunier et al. 2009:286 [ref. 28887] •Valid as Alutera heudelotii Hollard 1855 -- (Berry & Vogele 1961:66 [ref. 19549], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221] as heudelotti). •Valid as Aluterus heudelotii Hollard 1855 -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:472 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:300 [ref. 23100] as heudeloti, Harmelin-Vivien & Quéro 1990:1061 [ref. 19527], Boschung 1992:179 [ref. 23239] as heudeloti, Cervigón 1992:359 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1996:93 [ref. 24489] as heudeloti, Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:508 [ref. 24550] as heudeloti, Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:348 [ref. 25013], Matsuura 2003:1978 [ref. 27119], Menezes & Moura in Menezes et al. 2003:109 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:184 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:903 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:136 [ref. 32972], Matsuura 2014:11 [ref. 33576], Matsuura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3058 [ref. 34618], Reiner 2019:304 [ref. 38139], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:697 [ref. 38945], Fermon et al. 2022:308 [ref. 39448], Carvalho-Filho 2023:279 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:169 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Aluterus heudelotii Hollard 1855. Monacanthidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to Angola, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.