Species that contain: Caracanthus and unipinna [ 4 ] records

apistus, Amphiprionichthys Bleeker [P.] 1855:173 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 8 (no. 1); ref. 347] Cocos-Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean. Syntypes: (2) ?RMNH 5893 (1), SMNS 10577 (1). Type catalog: Fricke 1991:10 [ref. 13474], Fricke 2005:23 [ref. 29864]. •Considered the same as Caracanthus unipinna by authors. Scorpaenidae: Caracanthinae. Habitat: marine.

longipinnis, Micropus Jatzow [R.] & Lenz [H.] 1898:505, Pl. 34 (fig. 2) [Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft v. 21; ref. 14685] Zanzibar, Tanzania, western Indian Ocean. •Synonym of Caracanthus unipinna (Gray 1831) -- (Eschmeyer 1986:481 [ref. 19539]). Current status: Synonym of Caracanthus unipinna (Gray 1831). Scorpaenidae: Caracanthinae. Habitat: marine.

staurophorus, Centropus Kner [R.] 1860:531 [3], Pl. (fig. 1) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 39 (no. 4); ref. 2633] Zanzibar, Tanzania, western Indian Ocean. No types known. On p. 3 of separate. •Synonym of Caracanthus unipinna (Gray 1831) -- (Eschmeyer 1986:481 [ref. 19539]). Current status: Synonym of Caracanthus unipinna (Gray 1831). Scorpaenidae: Caracanthinae. Habitat: marine.

unipinna, Micropus Gray [J. E.] 1831:20 [Zoological Miscellany [No. 1]; ref. 1881] Pacific. Holotype: BMNH 1971.7.16.2 (missing in 2007). •Valid as Caracanthus unipinna (Gray 1831) -- (Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:318 [ref. 6441], Eschmeyer 1986:481 [ref. 19539], Paxton et al. 1989:458 [ref. 12442] as unipinnis, Winterbottom et al. 1989:22 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:85 [ref. 15987], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:288 [ref. 24023], Randall et al. 1997:85 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:102 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:168 [ref. 24106], Poss 1999:2353 [ref. 24796], Randall 1999:11 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:86 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:603 [ref. 25086], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:28 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:603 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:619 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:70 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:11 [ref. 27624] as unipinnis, Shinohara & Imamura 2004:64 [ref. 28198], Randall 2005:131 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Gates 2006:920 [ref. 28997], Fricke et al. 2009:39 [ref. 30213], Motomura 2009:64 [ref. 30463], Fricke et al. 2011:377 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:250 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:49 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:130 [ref. 35805], Wada et al. 2021:38 [ref. 38521], Poss & Motomura 2022:520 [ref. 39725]). Current status: Valid as Caracanthus unipinna (Gray 1831). Scorpaenidae: Caracanthinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Pitcairn Group, north to Amami Islands (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, Great Barrier Reef (Australia), Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia), Tonga and Rapa (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.