Species that contain: Neoniphon and opercularis [ 1 ] records

operculare, Holocentrum Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:501 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Carteret Harbour, Lambom Island, near Cape Saint-George, southern New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific, ca. 4°48'S, 152°51'E. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-2655. Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:17 [ref. 20740]. •Valid as Flammeo opercularis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:112 [ref. 6441]). •Valid as Neoniphon opercularis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1985:4 [ref. 5144], Randall & Heemstra 1986:416 [ref. 5707], Paxton et al. 1989:378 [ref. 12442] as operculare, Winterbottom et al. 1989:17 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:64 [ref. 15987], Kotlyar 1996:83 [ref. 23292], Allen 1997:68 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:64 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:64 [ref. 25919], Kotlyar 1998:204 [ref. 24674], Myers 1999:83 [ref. 23965], Randall & Greenfield 1999:2244 [ref. 24790], Nakabo 2000:492 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:601 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:144 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:96 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:492 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:616 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:31 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:69 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:135 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:93 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:780 [ref. 29066], Fricke et al. 2009:34 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:373 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:173 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:42 [ref. 33932], Copus et al. 2015:2 [ref. 33666], Eguchi & Motomura 2016:84 [ref. 34690], Koeda et al. 2016:17 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:114 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:83 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:351 [ref. 37272], Randall & Heemstra 2022:391 [ref. 39719], Allen & Erdmann 2024:190 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Neoniphon opercularis (Valenciennes 1831). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Line Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.