melanoptera, Sorsogona Knapp [L. W.] & Wongratana [T.] 1987:381, Fig. 1 [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 100 (no. 2); ref. 9158] About 3.2 kilometers off Cochin, India, depth 14-38 meters. Holotype: USNM 280331. Paratypes: ANSP 158798 (1); BPBM 27695 (3); CAS 58595 (1); CUB 2528.2.9.7 (1); USNM 223751 (1), 280332-43 (1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1, 4, 8, 1, 3, 11, 8), 280362-63 (31, 35); ZMH 5302 (6). The specific name is mostly treated in fishes as an adjective. •Valid as Rogadius melanopterus (Knapp & Wongratana 1987) -- (Imamura 1996:216 [ref. 22700], Imamura 2007:303 [ref. 29242], Psomadakis et al. 2020:376 [ref. 37272]). •Valid as Sorsogona melanoptera Knapp & Wongratana 1987 -- (Krishnan & Mishra 1993:220 [ref. 24016], Randall 1995:118 [ref. 22896], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:242 [ref. 24754], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:27 [ref. 27712], Knapp & Heemstra 2011:75 [ref. 31327], Psomadakis et al. 2015:193 [ref. 34104], Knapp 2022:592 [ref. 39727]). •Valid as Ratabulus melanopterus (Knapp & Wongratana 1987) -- (Moazzam & Osmany 2023:570 [ref. 40712]). Current status: Valid as Ratabulus melanopterus (Knapp & Wongratana 1987). Platycephalidae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman east to Andaman Sea coast of Thailand. Habitat: marine.