archipelagicus, Hemiramphus Collette [B. B.] & Parin [N. V.] 1978:732, Fig. 1a [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 91 (no. 3); ref. 8943] Western Indian Ocean, Vietnam, 8°21'N, 104°38'E. Holotype: USNM 218371 [ex SIO 65-43]. Paratypes: ANSP (7, 2 lots); BMNH (1); CAS 38631-32 (1, 4), 41999-42000 (1, 1); FMNH 15805-06 (1, 1); IOM (10, 5 lots); MCZ (1); NMC (3, 2 lots); NMW (1); RMNH (33, 12 lots); UMMZ 181212 (1); USNM 218372 (4); ZMA (16, 8 lots); ZMUC (8, 6 lots); ZSI (2, 1 lot). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:67 [ref. 19236], Böhlke 1984:102 [ref. 13621], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:45 [ref. 12367], Collette et al. 1992:8 [ref. 19410] including USNM paratypes inadvertently omitted from the original. •Valid as Hemiramphus archipelagicus Collette & Parin 1978 -- (Parin et al. 1980:127 [ref. 6895], Collette et al. 1992:8 [ref. 19410], Collette 1999:2186 [ref. 24785], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:599 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Collette 2004:3 [ref. 27583], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:82 [ref. 28239], Allen & Erdmann 2012:163 [ref. 31980], Yoshida et al. 2013:62 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:39 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:177 [ref. 34104] as cf. archipelagicus, Motomura et al. 2017:64 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:104 [ref. 35805], Hata et al. 2018:66 [ref. 36661], Behera et al. 2019:[2] [ref. 37133], Psomadakis et al. 2020:337 [ref. 37272], Collette 2022:359 [ref. 39718], Allen & Erdmann 2024:180 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Hemiramphus archipelagicus Collette & Parin 1978. Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar, India and Sri Lanka east to Cook Islands, north to Taiwan. Habitat: marine.