steinitzi, Cocotropus Eschmeyer [W. N.] & Dor [M.] 1978:166, Fig. 1 [Israel Journal of Zoology v. 27 (no. 4); ref. 8936] North Beach, Eilat, Israel, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Holotype: HUJ 17674 [ex E 59719/10]. Paratypes: CAS-SU 14650 (1). Type catalog: Golani 2006:25 [ref. 28840]. •Valid as Cocotropus steinitzi Eschmeyer & Dor 1978 -- (Poss & Eschmeyer 1978:405 [ref. 6387], Dor 1984:89 [ref. 29757], Poss & Allen 1987:79 [ref. 6616], Goren & Dor 1994:22 [ref. 25356], Imamura & Shinohara 2003:233 [ref. 27213], Fricke 2004:2 [ref. 27662], Johnson 2004:180 [ref. 27781], Imamura & Shinohara 2004:204 [ref. 27943], Imamura & Shinohara 2008:23 [ref. 29563], Imamura et al. 2010:5 [ref. 30770], Prokofiev 2010:723 [ref. 31093], Allen & Erdmann 2012:252 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:55 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35454], Golani & Fricke 2018:57 [ref. 36273], Matsunuma et al. 2021:Table 2 [ref. 38266], Poss 2022:562 [ref. 39726], Allen & Erdmann 2024:269 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Cocotropus steinitzi Eschmeyer & Dor 1978. Synanceiidae: Aploactininae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Andaman Islands; northern Papua New Guinea. IUCN (2024): Not Assessed. Habitat: marine.