Species that contain: Lepidotrigla and spiloptera [ 3 ] records

longipinnis, Lepidotrigla spiloptera var. Alcock [A. W.] 1890:429 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 6 (no. 36) (art. 52); ref. 86] Bay of Bengal, off Ganjam Coast, Bengal, Investigator station 78, depth 18 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F12925. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:155 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:43 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Alcock 1900: Pl. 31 (fig. 1) [ref. 20536] as Lepidotrigla longipinnis. Thought to be preoccupied by Lepidotrigla longipinnis [but actually longispinis] Steindachner & Döderlein 1887, incorrectly replaced by Lepidotrigla riggsi Richards & Saksena 1977:211 [ref. 5285]. •Synonym of Lepidotrigla spilopterus Günther 1880 -- (Dor 1984:89 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Lepidotrigla riggsi Richards & Saksena 1977 -- (Richards 1992:62 [ref. 20654]). •Valid as Lepidotrigla longipinnis Alcock 1890 -- (Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Gomon & Psomadakis 2018:68 [ref. 35752], Gomon & Kawai 2018:631 [ref. 36285], Psomadakis et al. 2020:368 [ref. 37272], Richards 2022:608 [ref. 39730]). Current status: Valid as Lepidotrigla longipinnis Alcock 1890. Triglidae: Triglinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: west coast of India east to west coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), south to Lombok (Indonesia) Habitat: marine.

riggsi, Lepidotrigla Richards [W. J.] & Saksena [V. P.] 1977:215 [Bulletin of Marine Science v. 27 (no. 2); ref. 5285] Bay of Bengal, off Ganjam Coast, Bengal, Investigator station 78, depth 18 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F12925. Unneeded replacement name for Lepidotrigla spiloptera var. longipinnis Alcock 1890, thought to be preoccupied by Lepidotrigla longipinnis [actually longispinis] Steindachner & Döderlein 1887. •Valid as Lepidotrigla riggsi Richards & Saksena 1977 -- (Richards 1992:63 [ref. 20654], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:220 [ref. 24016], del Cerro & Lloris 1997:51 [ref. 22811]). •Synonym of Lepidotrigla longipinnis Alcock 1890 -- (Gomon & Kawai 2018:631 [ref. 36285]). Current status: Synonym of Lepidotrigla longipinnis Alcock 1890. Triglidae: Triglinae. Habitat: marine.

spiloptera, Lepidotrigla Günther [A.] 1880:42, Pl. 18 (fig. C) [Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger in the years 1873-1876 v. 1 (pt 6); ref. 2011] Kai Islands, Challenger station 192, Indonesia, Banda Sea [western Pacific Ocean], depth 129 fathoms. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1879.5.14.269. •Valid as Lepidotrigla spiloptera Günther 1880 -- (Richards & Saksena 1977:218 [ref. 5285], Dor 1984:89 [ref. 29757], Paxton et al. 1989:455 [ref. 12442], Manilo 1992:22 [131] [ref. 39140], Richards 1992:63 [ref. 20654], Baranes & Golani 1993:305 [ref. 22372], Goren & Dor 1994:22 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:115 [ref. 22896], Richards 1999:2368 [ref. 24797], Richards in Randall & Lim 2000:607 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Paxton et al. 2006:925 [ref. 29074], Larson et al. 2013:88 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:190 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:138 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:58 [ref. 36273], Gomon & Kawai 2018:643 [ref. 36285], Eagderi et al. 2019:130 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 29 [ref. 38321], Matsunuma & Tashiro 2020:151 [ref. 37726], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:125 [ref. 41223], Richards 2022:609 [ref. 39730], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:576 [ref. 40712]). Current status: Valid as Lepidotrigla spiloptera Günther 1880. Triglidae: Triglinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Somalia, Tanzania), Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines, north to Taiwan, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: marine.