Species that contain: Antennarius and commersonii [ 5 ] records

cantoris, Antennarius commersonii var. Günther [A.] 1861:193 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Singapore. No types known. •Status uncertain -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:263 [ref. 20669], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:353 [ref. 38284]). 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], Page et al. 2023:163 [ref. 40505], Allen & Erdmann 2024:162 [ref. 40796]). 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.

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.

insidiator, Batrachopus Whitley [G. P.] 1934:[1] [Supplement to the check-list of the fishes of New South Wales; ref. 4682] Watson's Bay, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Holotype (unique): AMS I.5263. Type catalog: Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:59 [ref. 20669]. Unpaginated, description is on the 1st page of the supplement. Species was originally described and illustrated as Antennarius commersonii in Whitley 1929:137, Pl. 31 (fig. 5) [ref. 4665], but the figured specimen was later renamed as a new species in a footnote in the above reference. •Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:59 [ref. 20669], Lindberg et al. 1997:218 [ref. 23547], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:101 [ref. 38284]). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.

museibritannici, Antennarius commersonii var. Günther [A.] 1861:193 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] No locality known. Holotype (unique): BMNH 2020.11.27.2. •Status uncertain -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:263 [ref. 20669], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:355 [ref. 38284]). •Synonym of Lophiocharon trisignatus (Richardson 1844) -- (Pietsch pers.comm. 2020). Current status: Synonym of Lophiocharon trisignatus (Richardson 1844). Histiophrynidae. Habitat: marine.