Species that contain: Antennarius and commerson [ 13 ] records

caudimaculatus, Chironectes Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1838:141, Pl. 33 (fig. 2) [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] El-Tor, Sinai coast, Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): SMF 6783 (dry). Type catalog: Pietsch & Arnold 2020:117 [ref. 38284]. •Valid as Antennarius caudimaculatus (Rüppell 1838) -- (Dor 1984:55 [ref. 29757], Goren & Dor 1994:14 [ref. 25356]). •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:92 [ref. 20669] as commersoni and author as Latreille 1804, Golani & Fricke 2018:37 [ref. 36273], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:115 [ref. 38284] with author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

commerson, Lophius Anonymous in Lacepède (ex Commerson) 1798:681 [Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 1798 (pt. 3) (no. 288) (for 25 Sept. 1798); ref. 24107] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Neotype: MNHN A-4623. Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:141 [ref. 6339], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:117 [ref. 38284]. First Latinization of the 'Lophie commerson' of Lacepède. Usually dated to Latreille 1804. Neotype designated by Dor 1984:56 [ref. 29757] but that designation invalid (not a revisional work). •Valid as Antennarius commersoni (Latreille 1804) -- (Pietsch 1984:34 [ref. 5380], Pietsch 1986:367 [ref. 5704], Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:92 [ref. 20669], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Schneider & Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995:857 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:83 [ref. 22896], Lindberg et al. 1997:216 [ref. 23547], Larson & Williams 1997:349 [ref. 23967], Randall et al. 1997:497 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:68 [ref. 23965] as commersonii, Pietsch 1999:2015 [ref. 24766], Nakabo 2000:456 [ref. 25086], Pietsch in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:130 [ref. 25191] as commerson, Sadovy & Cornish 2000:44 [ref. 25480], Nakabo 2002:456 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:614 [ref. 27495] as commersonii, Randall 2005:70 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:263 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:200 [ref. 28944], Allen et al. 2006:639 [ref. 29066], Caratini & Soriano 2011:81 [ref. 39915], Larson et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32988]). •Valid as Antennarius commerson (Latreille 1804) -- (Randall 2007:127 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Motomura 2009:41 [ref. 30446], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:114 [ref. 38284]). •Valid as Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Fricke 1999:104 [ref. 24106] with authorship as Commerson & Lacepède in Anonymous, Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:78 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:367 [ref. 31242] with authorship as Anonymous ex Commerson ex Lacepède, Arnold & Pietsch 2012:128 [ref. 31574] with author as Latreille 1804, Allen & Erdmann 2012:145 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:97 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2013:252 [ref. 32706], Fourriére et al. 2016:442 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Fricke et al. 2018:87 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:37 [ref. 36273], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:6 [ref. 36248], Arndt & Fricke 2019:10 [ref. 36883], Love et al. 2021:86 [ref. 39279] with question, Arnold & Pietsch 2022:289 [ref. 39710] with author as Lacepède, Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935]). Current status: Valid as Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Panama, north to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands, Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Society Islands (French Polynesia), south to Houtman Abrolhos (Western Australia), New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island (Australia). IUCN (2022): not assessed. Habitat: marine.

commerson, Lophius Latreille [P. A.] 1804:74 [ ref. 17490] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Type: MNHN A-4623. Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:141-142 [ref. 6339]. Apparently predates Shaw 1804; Pietsch 1986:367 [ref. 5704] gives March 1804 for Latreille and June 1804 for Shaw. [Should be spelled commerson and not commersoni]. Neotype designated by Dor 1984:56 [ref. 29757] but that designation invalid (not a revisional work). •See Lophius commerson Anonymous 1798. Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

commersonianus, Lophius Jordan [D. S.] (ex Lacepède) 1917:69, 104 [Leland Stanford Jr. University Publications, University Series No. 27; ref. 2407] Based on Antennarius antenna tricorni Commerson and Antennarius bivertex ... Commerson in Laceède 1798 (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:59 [ref. 20669]). •Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794) or Antennarius commerson (Latreille 1804) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669] as commersoni). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius. Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

commersonii, Lophius Shaw [G.] 1804:387 [General zoology or systematic natural history; ref. 4015] Indian Seas. No types known. See also Lophius commerson Latreille of slightly earlier date. •Valid as Antennarius commersonii (Shaw 1804) -- (Dor 1984:56 [ref. 29757], Paxton et al. 1989:278 [ref. 12442] as commersoni, Goren & Dor 1994:14 [ref. 25356], Kuiter 1997:44 [ref. 25488]). •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:92 [ref. 20669] as commersoni and author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

goramensis, Antennarius Bleeker [P.] 1864:177 [Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde v. 2; ref. 13924] Pulau-Pulau Gorong, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 6288. Type catalog: Pietsch & Arnold 2020:117 [ref. 38284]. •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669] as commersoni and author as Latreille 1804, Pietsch & Arnold 2020:116 [ref. 38284] with author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

lateralis, Antennarius Tanaka [S.] 1917:200 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 29 (no. 345); ref. 4330] Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZUMT (lost). Species originally published in Japanese in above reference, later illustrated and described in more detail in English and Japanese in Tanaka 1918:494, Pl. 135 (fig. 378) [ref. 14911]. •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669] as commersoni and author as Latreille 1804, Pietsch & Arnold 2020:116 [ref. 38284] with author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

lutescens, Antennarius Seale [A.] 1906:89, Fig. 2 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 4 (no. 1); ref. 3999] Tahiti, Society Islands [French Polynesia, South Pacific]. Holotype (unique): BPBM 1347. Type catalog: Pietsch & Arnold 2020:117 [ref. 38284]. •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669] as commersoni and author as Latreille 1804, Pietsch & Arnold 2020:116 [ref. 38284] with author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

moluccensis, Antennarius Bleeker [P.] 1855:424 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 8 (no. 3); ref. 350] Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 6273. Type catalog: Pietsch & Arnold 2020:117 [ref. 38284]. •Valid as Antennarius moluccensis Bleeker 1855 -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:103 [ref. 6441], Kao & Lin 1986:76 [ref. 39481]). •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798), author often as Latreille 1804 -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669] as commersoni, Randall 2005:70 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:263 [ref. 28379], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:115 [ref. 38284] with author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

pinniceps, Antennarius Bleeker [P.] (ex Commerson) 1856:49 [Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae v. 1; ref. 311] Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Lectotype: RMNH 6271. Paralectotypes: RMNH (1, not found). Type catalog: Pietsch & Arnold 2020:103 [ref. 38284]. Lectotype selected by Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:57 [ref. 20669]. •Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:57 [ref. 20669], Edwards & Glass 1987:631 [ref. 9166], Pietsch 1990:483 [ref. 15577], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:98 [ref. 38284]). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

rubrofuscus, Chironectes Garrett [A.] 1863:64 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1) v. 3; ref. 13928] Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): destroyed in fire of 1906. Type catalog: Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669]. Originally as rubro-fuscus. •Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798), author often as Latreille 1804 -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:94 [ref. 20669] as commersoni, Mundy 2005:263 [ref. 28379], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:115 [ref. 38284] with author as Latreille 1804). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

tricornis, Chironectes Cloquet [H.] (ex Commerson) 1817:598 (v. 8) [Dictionnaire des sciences Naturelles; ref. 852] Off East African coast. No types known. Based on Antennarius antenna tricorni Commerson, manuscript. •Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:56 [ref. 20669], Fricke 1999:107 [ref. 24106], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:97 [ref. 38284]). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

verus, Chironectes Cloquet [H.] 1817:599 (v. 8) [Dictionnaire des sciences Naturelles; ref. 852] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. Based on Antennarius (chironectes) obscure ... Commerson MSS, Lophius variegatus Shaw and Lophie chironecte Lacepède. •Synonym of Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:80 [ref. 20669], Fricke 1999:106 [ref. 24106], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:145 [ref. 38284]). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.