Species that contain: Acanthocepola and indica [ 3 ] records

cuneatus, Acanthocepola Smith [J. L. B.] 1935:193, Pl. 21 (fig. A) [Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown v. 4; ref. 4066] South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 51 [ex AMG]. •Synonym of Acanthocepola limbata (Valenciennes 1835) -- (Smith-Vaniz 1986:728 [ref. 5718], Smith-Vaniz 2001:3332 [ref. 26130]). •Synonym of Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888) -- (Smith-Vaniz 2022:316 [ref. 39947]). Current status: Synonym of Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888). Cepolidae: Cepolinae. Habitat: marine.

indica, Cepola Day [F.] 1888:796 [The fishes of India Suppl.; ref. 1082] Madras, India. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:160 [ref. 23762]. •Synonym of Acanthocepola limbata (Valenciennes 1835) -- (Smith-Vaniz 2001:3332 [ref. 26130]). •Valid as Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888) -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:201 [ref. 6441], Mok 1988:507 [ref. 12752], Chen et al. 1997:131 [ref. 26476], Imai in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:915 [ref. 25182], Shinohara et al. 2001:327 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:915 [ref. 26193], Psomadakis et al. 2015:293 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:171 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:220 [ref. 36460], Mahesh et al. 2019:[2] [ref. 36878], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:145 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:515 [ref. 37272], Silambarasan et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38784], Smith-Vaniz 2022:316 [ref. 39947]). Current status: Valid as Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888). Cepolidae: Cepolinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan and India east to Philippines, north to southern Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: marine.

macrophthalmum, Ophidion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:259 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Vicinity of Algiers, Algeria, western Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:256-257 [ref. 20707] who suggest retaining this species in the synonymy of the younger Cepola rubescens Linnaeus 1764. Named Ophidion macroophthalmum by Houttuyn 1764:246 [ref. 2219]. •Synonym of Cepola rubescens Linnaeus 1764 -- (Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:810 [ref. 13676], Quéro 1990:853 [ref. 18537], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:51 [ref. 36649] with author as Lozano Rey 1921). •Valid as Cepola macrophthalma (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Monod 1973:368 [ref. 7193], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:281 [ref. 25013], Fricke et al. 2007:92 [ref. 29533], Smith-Vaniz in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2692 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:557 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:278 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36864], Nair & Geetha 2019:18 [ref. 36630], Bariche & Fricke 2020:66 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:37 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:88 [ref. 38887], Kovačić et al. 2021:68 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:285 [ref. 39448] with question, Renoult et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40491]). Current status: Valid as Cepola macrophthalma (Linnaeus 1758). Cepolidae: Cepolinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Senegal. Record from India based on misidentified Acanthocepola indica (Day 1888). Habitat: marine.