ferrugineum, Scyllium Lesson [R. P.] 1831:95 [Voyage autour du monde Zool. v. 2 (pt 1); ref. 2776] Port Praslin, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago; Offack Bay, Waigeo, Indonesia. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. Squalus kumal Forsskål 1775, Squalus kamul Bloch & Schneider 1801 and Anodon cirrhosus Billberg 1833 are apparently seniors synonym (see Fricke 2008:8 [ref. 30182]; Kullander 2016:113 [ref. 34147]), but Nebrius ferrugineus (Lesson 1831) is in prevailing usage and therefore here used as the valid name for the species. •Valid as Ginglymostoma ferrugineum (Lesson 1831) -- (Dor 1984:3 [ref. 29757], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:220 [ref. 36138]). •Valid as Nebrius ferrugineus (Lesson 1831) -- (Compagno 1984:207 [ref. 6474], Allen & Swainston 1988:20 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:4 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:15 [ref. 15987], Last & Stevens 1994:140 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:1 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:19 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:40 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:15 [ref. 25919], Compagno 1998:1260 [ref. 23785], Myers 1999:32 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:14 [ref. 24106], Compagno 1999:477 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:578 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:86 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Goto 2001:84 [ref. 25912], Compagno 2001:196 [ref. 26323], Allen & Adrim 2003:21 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S91 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:609 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:5 [ref. 27624] as Lesson 1830, Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:21 [ref. 27735] as Lesson 1830, Randall 2005:8 [ref. 28239], Compagno et al. 2005:22 [ref. 29145], Hoese & Gates 2006:128 [ref. 28997], Fricke et al. 2009:11 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:9 [ref. 30426], Last el al. 2010:36 [ref. 32461], Fricke et al. 2011:344 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:51 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:14 [ref. 32988], Ebert et al. 2013:305 [ref. 33045], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:77 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:7 [ref. 34211], White et al. 2018:78 [ref. 35860], Fricke et al. 2018:8 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:8 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:295 [ref. 36178], Tyabji et al. 2018:17 [ref. 36598], White & Ko'ou 2018:22 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:13 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:37 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:58 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:167 [ref. 37272], Ebert et al. 2021:37 [ref. 38234], Human 2022:460 [ref. 39664], Hsu et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39567], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:213 [ref. 40666], Allen & Erdmann 2024:53 [ref. 40796]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Nebrius ferrugineus (Lesson 1831). Ginglymostomatidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Mozambique, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Society Islands and Marquesas, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.