Species that contain: Lophiomus and setigerus [ 6 ] records

indicus, Lophius Alcock [A. W.] 1889:302 [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 58 (pt 2, no. 3); ref. 84] Five miles south of Ganjam, Bay of Bengal, Investigator station 43, depth 25 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1890.11.28.45-46 (2, ex ZSI); MNHN 1890-0341 (1); ZSI F12450-51 (2), 261/1-263/1 (3), 12504 (1), 13216 (1), 413/1 (1) (last 3 lots not seen in 2013; Ho, personal observation). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:163 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:46 [ref. 22148], Pietsch et al. 1987:136 [ref. 6339]. Figured in Alcock 1898: Pl. 19 (fig. 3) [ref. 20534]. •Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797) -- (Caruso 1983:13 [ref. 5168], Lindberg et al. 1997:204 [ref. 23547]). Current status: Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797). Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

laticeps, Chirolophius Ogilby [J. D.] 1910:136 [On some new fishes from the Queensland coast; ref. 3289] 58 kilometers northeast of Cape Moreton, Queensland, Australia, 27°10'S, 153°17'E, depth 73 fathoms. Holotype (unique): AMS E.2973. For remarks on holotype see Imamura & Hoese 2020:[9] [ref. 37793]. •Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797) -- (Caruso 1983:13 [ref. 5168], Paxton et al. 1989:274 [ref. 12442], Lindberg et al. 1997:204 [ref. 23547], Paxton et al. 2006:635 [ref. 28994]). Current status: Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797). Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

longicephalus, Lophiomus Tanaka [S.] 1918:227 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 30 (no. 356); ref. 17357] Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZUMT 8338 (lost). •Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797) -- (Caruso 1983:13 [ref. 5168], Lindberg et al. 1997:204 [ref. 23547]). Current status: Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797). Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

malabaricus, Chirolophius Samuel [C. T.] 1963:116 [Bulletin of the Department of Marine Biology Oceanogrphy, University of Kerala v. 1; ref. 3406] Kerala coast, southwestern India. Syntypes: Dept. of Oceanogr., Univ of Kerala, India (1) station 196, depth 100 fathoms, (1) station 258, depth 100 fathoms (one type was seen in 2013, Ho, pers. obse.). •Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797) -- (Caruso 1983:13 [ref. 5168], Lindberg et al. 1997:204 [ref. 23547]). Current status: Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797). Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

setigerus, Lophius Vahl [M.] 1797:215, Pl. 3 (figs. 5-6) [Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet Kiøbenhavn v. 4; ref. 17847] China, western Pacific Ocean. Possible syntypes: AMS I.25832-004 (1, skeleton). •Valid as Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:62 [ref. 39147], Caruso 1983:13 [ref. 5168], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:102 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:271, 377 [ref. 8057], Caruso 1986:365 [ref. 6290], Paxton et al. 1989:274 [ref. 12442], Caruso 1989:1072 [ref. 20126], Goren & Dor 1994:13 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:632 [ref. 27969], Shinohara et al. 1996:172 [ref. 26605], Chen et al. 1997:187 [ref. 26476], Lindberg et al. 1997:204 [ref. 23547], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:8 [ref. 24670], Caruso 1999:2011 [ref. 24765], Nakabo 2000:452 [ref. 25086], Caruso in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Youn et al. 2000:255 [ref. 25179], Hutchins 2001:22 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:452 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:213, 541 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Kharin & Cheblukov 2005:565 [ref. 28367], Love et al. 2005:58 [ref. 37547], Shinohara et al. 2005:419 [ref. 28370], Paxton et al. 2006:635 [ref. 28994], Ho & Shao 2007:29 [ref. 29146], Khalaf & Zajonz 2007:424 [ref. 31739], Gomon 2008:362 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2011:367 [ref. 31242], Ho et al. 2011:1722 [ref. 31638], Shinohara et al. 2011:41 [ref. 31715], Mukhametov & Orlov 2011:56 [ref. 32453], Ho & Chen 2013:594 [ref. 32758], Larson et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32988], Palacios-Salgado et al. 2014:236 [ref. 36362], Parin et al. 2014:184 [ref. 33547], Shinohara et al. 2014:242 [ref. 33330], Psomadakis et al. 2015:173 [ref. 34104], Ho et al. 2016:79 [ref. 35218], Ali et al. 2018:314 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:37 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:33 [ref. 37020], Miyazaki et al. 2019:123 [ref. 37957], Kim et al. 2020:75 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:329 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:31 [ref. 37637], Kim et al. 2021:96 [ref. 39117], Love et al. 2021:86 [ref. 39279], Caruso 2022:286 [ref. 39709], Ho & Lin 2022:144 [ref. 39632]). Current status: Valid as Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797). Lophiidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: South Africa, East Africa and Persian Gulf east to Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to Sea of Japan (Korea and Japan), south to Shark Bay (Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico). Habitat: marine.

viviparus, Lophius Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:142, Pl. 32 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Type catalog: Paepke 1999:95 [ref. 24282] with ZMB 2209 as not a type. Unexplained new name for Lophius setigerus Vahl 1797. •Objective synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797) -- (Caruso 1983:13 [ref. 5168], Lindberg et al. 1997:204 [ref. 23547]). Current status: Synonym of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl 1797). Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.