Species that contain: Hoplobrotula and armata [ 1 ] records

armata, Brotula Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1846:255 [Fauna Japonica Parts 10-14; ref. 4374] Seas of Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH D1409 (dry). Type information: Boeseman 1947:183 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Hoplobrotula armata (Temminck & Schlegel 1846) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:190 [ref. 7348], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:100 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:245, 371 [ref. 8057], Paxton et al. 1989:312 [ref. 12442], Machida 1990:212 [ref. 19206], Chen & Shao 1991:12 [ref. 16679], Machida 1990:209 [ref. 19206], Cheng & Zhou 1997:230 [ref. 26385] with year as 1847, Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:69 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1981 [ref. 24753], Nakabo 2000:437 [ref. 25086], Nielsen in Randall & Lim 2000:596 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:23 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:307 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:437 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:206, 537 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:413 [ref. 28370], Hoese et al. 2006:561 [ref. 29051] dated 1847, Shinohara et al. 2011:40 [ref. 31715], Larson et al. 2013:49 [ref. 32988], Iwamoto & McCosker 2014:282 [ref. 33298], Fricke et al. 2014:33 [ref. 33932], Shinohara et al. 2014:241 [ref. 33330], Motomura et al. 2017:55 [ref. 35490], Kim et al. 2020:73 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:30 [ref. 37637], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:91 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Hoplobrotula armata (Temminck & Schlegel 1846). Ophidiidae: Neobythitinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Vietnam east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Korea and Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.