Species that contain: Myripristis and leiognathus [ 5 ] records

leiognathus, Myripristis Valenciennes [A.] 1846:no p., Pl. 4 (fig. 1) [Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate "la Vénus"; ref. 6165] Galápagos Islands. Holotype: ?MNHN A-2687 (dry). Non-types: ?MNHN 0000-5496 (1, dry). Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:21-22 [ref. 20740] as holotype and paratype, but there can only be a holotype (figured specimen). Dates to publication in plate; corresponding text published as Valenciennes 1855:316 [ref. 4504]. Spelled leignathos in text in 1855, leiognathus on Pl. 4 in 1846. •Valid as Myripristis leiognathus [correct] Valenciennes 1846 [sometimes as leiognathos] -- (Greenfield 1965:234 [ref. 21267], Allen & Robertson 1994:95 [ref. 22193], Schneider & Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995:1185 [ref. 22829], Kotlyar 1996:87 [ref. 23292], McCosker et al. 1997:24 [ref. 22816], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:212 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:275 [ref. 24023], Kotlyar 1998:207 [ref. 24674], Thomson et al. 2000:59 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:110 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:70 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:307 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:112 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:443 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:608 [ref. 34923], Love et al. 2021:101 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:107 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of central Baja California (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico), Cocos Islands (Costa Rica) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.

leucopus, Rhamphoberyx Gill [T. N.] 1863:88 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 15; ref. 1679] Cape San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico. Syntypes: (2) USNM 6304 (1, apparently lost). •Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846 -- (Greenfield 1965:234 [ref. 21267]). Current status: Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Habitat: marine.

occidentalis, Myriopristis Gill [T. N.] 1863:87 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 15; ref. 1679] Cape San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico. Lectotype: USNM 6269. Paralectotypes: USNM 6348 (29), 6350 (37), 6352-53 (7, 51), 198176 (12). Lectotype regarded as designated by Greenfield 1965:235 [ref. 21267] but with other types as paratypes. Original genus should have been Myripristis. •Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846 -- (Greenfield 1965:234 [ref. 21267], Mundy 2005:307 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Habitat: marine.

poecilopus, Rhamphoberyx Gill [T. N.] 1863:87 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 15; ref. 1679] Cape San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico. Syntypes: USNM 6273 (2), 93275 (2). •Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846 -- (Greenfield 1965:234 [ref. 21267] as leiognathos). Current status: Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Habitat: marine.

sealei, Myripristis Jenkins [O. P.] 1903:439, Fig. 13 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 22 (1902); ref. 2341] Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands [probably erroneous; should be eastern Pacific]. Holotype: USNM 50708. Paratypes: CAS-SU 23298 (11). •Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846 -- (Greenfield 1965:234 [ref. 21267] as leiognathos, Mundy 2005:307 [ref. 28379] but locality doubtful). Current status: Synonym of Myripristis leiognathus Valenciennes 1846. Holocentridae: Myripristinae. Habitat: marine.