Species that contain: Antennarius and hispidus [ 2 ] records

hispidus, Lophius Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:142 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Coromandel coast, India. Holotype (unique): ZMB 2221. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:45 [ref. 24282], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:79 [ref. 38284]. •Valid as Antennarius hispidus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:310 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:56 [ref. 29757], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:103 [ref. 6441], Pietsch 1984:34 [ref. 5380], Pietsch 1986:367 [ref. 5704], Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:71 [ref. 20669], Allen & Swainston 1988:38 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:278 [ref. 12442], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:218 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:14 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:633 [ref. 27969], Lindberg et al. 1997:216 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:62 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:188 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:42 [ref. 25488], Fricke 1999:105 [ref. 24106], Pietsch 1999:2015 [ref. 24766], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Nakabo 2000:455 [ref. 25086], Pietsch in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:22 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:455 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:122 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:71 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:639 [ref. 29066], Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:61 [ref. 35264], Arnold & Pietsch 2012:128 [ref. 31574], Allen & Erdmann 2012:146 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:54 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:174 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:55 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:87 [ref. 35805], Arndt & Fricke 2019:10 [ref. 36883], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:75 [ref. 39118], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:77 [ref. 38284], Psomadakis et al. 2020:330 [ref. 37272], Rajeeshkumar et al. 2021:75 [ref. 38131], Arnold & Pietsch 2022:289 [ref. 39710]). Current status: Valid as Antennarius hispidus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Antennariidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Indonesia, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Korea, south to Western Australia, Manly Bay (New South Wales, Australia) and Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia). Habitat: marine.

lophotes, Chironectes Cuvier [G.] 1817:428, Pl. 17 (fig. 2) [Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris v. 3; ref. 1015] Unknown locality. No types known. Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:147 [ref. 6339]. •Synonym of Antennarius hispidus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:71 [ref. 20669], Randall 2005:71 [ref. 28239], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:77 [ref. 38284]). Current status: Synonym of Antennarius hispidus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Antennariidae. Habitat: marine.