microstoma, Hemigaleus Bleeker [P.] 1852:46, Pl. 2 (fig. 9) [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 24 (art. 12); ref. 333] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: (2) BMNH 1867.11.28.173 (1). •Valid as Hemigaleus microstoma Bleeker 1852 -- (Compagno 1984:439 [ref. 6846], Paxton et al. 1989:81 [ref. 12442], Last & Stevens 1994:218 [ref. 23873], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:59 [ref. 27969], Compagno 1998:1309 [ref. 23785], Compagno 1999:482 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:579 [ref. 25122], Johnson 2001:719 [ref. 25471], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S92 [ref. 27377], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:25 [ref. 27735], White et al. 2005:37, 47 [ref. 28574], Compagno et al. 2005:33 [ref. 29145], Last el al. 2010:80 [ref. 32461], Weigmann 2012:9 [ref. 31968], White & Harris 2013:183 [ref. 33038], Ebert et al. 2013:327 [ref. 33045], Weigmann 2016:27 [ref. 34211], Golani & Fricke 2018:13 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:296 [ref. 36178], Psomadakis et al. 2020:172 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:14 [ref. 41223], Knuckey & Ebert 2022:506 [ref. 39658]). Current status: Valid as Hemigaleus microstoma Bleeker 1852. Hemigaleidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to Indonesia and New Guinea, north to China, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.