commersonii, Fistularia Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1838:142 [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] Al Muwaylih, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 3139 (dry). Rüppell specimens: SMF 7630 (1, skeleton). •Valid as Fistularia commersonii Rüppell 1838 -- (Fritzsche 1976:199 [ref. 7102], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:84 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:73 [ref. 29757], Okamura in Okamura et al. 1985:425, 648 [ref. 8056], Heemstra 1986:444 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:44 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:405 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:163 [ref. 24556], Pequeño 1989:55 [ref. 14125], Winterbottom et al. 1989:18 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:69 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:159 [ref. 25479], Kuiter 1993:80 [ref. 23929], Allen & Robertson 1994:96 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:80 [ref. 23101], Goren & Dor 1994:18 [ref. 25356], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:278 [ref. 24014], Fritzsche & Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1104 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:97 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:70 [ref. 23977], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:140 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:280 [ref. 24023] as commersoni, Randall et al. 1997:69 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:144 [ref. 24106], Fritzsche & Thiesfeld 1999:2279 [ref. 24793], Johnson 1999:726 [ref. 25471], Myers 1999:95 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:10 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:97 [ref. 25868], Allen 2000:85 [ref. 37268], Fritzsche in Randall & Lim 2000:603 [ref. 25122], Golani 2000:1545 [ref. 37255], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:172 [ref. 27511] dated 1835, Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:152 [ref. 25191], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:121 [ref. 25206], Nakabo 2000:516 [ref. 25086], Randall & Earle 2000:10 [ref. 25806], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:59 [ref. 25480], Thomson et al. 2000:62 [ref. 25640], Curtis & Herbinson 2001:156 [ref. 25755], Hutchins 2001:26 [ref. 25847], Sakai et al. 2001:90 [ref. 25693], Shimizu 2001:23 [ref. 25799], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:525 [ref. 26145], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:64 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:516 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:236, 556 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:36 [ref. 27510], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:618 [ref. 27495] dated 1836, Adrim et al. 2004:119 [ref. 27715], Azzurro et al. 2004:72 [ref. 27742], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:138 [ref. 28072], Lobel & Lobel 2004:69 [ref. 27576], Nelson et al. 2004:112 [ref. 27807], Randall et al. 2004:10 [ref. 27624] dated 1835, Golani 2005:31 [ref. 37112], Love et al. 2005:72 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:321 [ref. 28379], Randall 2005:101 [ref. 28239], Paxton et al. 2006:849 [ref. 28994], Trunov 2006:472 [ref. 28786], Fricke et al. 2007:75 [ref. 29533], Pais et al. 2007:270 [ref. 28941], Randall 2007:165 [ref. 30952], Gomon 2008:447 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:38 [ref. 30213], Kuiter 2009:315 [ref. 30404], Satapoomin 2009:61 [ref. 30463], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:36 [ref. 36649], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:191 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:88 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:376 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:115 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2014:48 [ref. 33932], Palacios-Salgado et al. 2014:236 [ref. 36362], Wirtz et al. 2014:5 [ref. 33516], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:111 [ref. 36167], Motomura et al. 2015:18 [ref. 34709], Psomadakis et al. 2015:182 [ref. 34104], Stewart 2015:1066 [ref. 34254], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:608 [ref. 34923], Fourriére et al. 2016:443 [ref. 34668], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34871], Koeda et al. 2016:19 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:3 [ref. 35354], Motomura et al. 2017:60 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:316 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:127 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:47 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:102 [ref. 36262], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], Arndt & Fricke 2019:15 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:132 [ref. 37020], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:95 [ref. 36864], Fricke et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:68 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:147 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 13 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:87 [ref. 39118], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:356 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:35 [ref. 37637], Walker et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37499], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Golani 2021:34 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:37 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:103 [ref. 39279], Heemstra 2022:497 [ref. 39724], Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Fistularia commersonii Rüppell 1838. Fistulariidae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Ascension Island; Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to eastern Pacific, north to Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan), Ogasawara Islands (Japan) and Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), New Caledonia, New Zealand and Rapa; eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Panama, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador); Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.