Species that contain: Neoniphon and sammara [ 9 ] records

angulosus, Labrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:430, 477, Pl. 22 (fig. 1) [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 3; ref. 2710] Indian seas. Syntypes: MNHN A-5419 (1, dry, poor condition), B-2164 (1, dry). Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:97 [ref. 19171], Bauchot 1970:19 [ref. 20740]. Based on Commerson drawing with underlying specimens at MNHN. •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1985:4 [ref. 5144]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

armatus, Neoniphon Castelnau [F. L.] 1875:5 [Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria.; ref. 768] Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:36 [ref. 20740]. •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Paxton et al. 1989:379 [ref. 12442], Randall & Heemstra 1985:4 [ref. 5144], Allen et al. 2006:780 [ref. 29066]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

christianum, Holocentrum Cuvier [G.] (ex Ehrenberg) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:219 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 3; ref. 4879] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Possible types: ZMB 494 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:35 [ref. 20740]. Also appeared as Rüppell 1829:83, 85 [ref. 3843]. •Synonym of Flammeo sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:71 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1985:4 [ref. 5144], Golani & Fricke 2018:45 [ref. 36273]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

farer, Sciaena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:44 [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ZMUC P.4042. Unneeded alternative name for Sciaena sammara Fabricius 1775. Fricke 2008:23 [ref. 30182] acted as first reviser and gave preference to S. sammara. •In the synonymy of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:23 [ref. 30182]). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

fuscostriatus, Holocentrus Seale [A.] 1901:69 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 1 (no. 3); ref. 14357] Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. Holotype: BPBM 73. Paratypes: (24) ANSP 83956 (14), BPBM 74 (13), USNM 109373 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:113 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775) -- (Kotlyar, pers. comm., 3/03). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

hasta, Neoniphon De Vis [C. W.] 1884:537 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 4899] Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): not at QM. •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Paxton et al. 1989:379 [ref. 12442], Allen et al. 2006:780 [ref. 29066]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

platyrrhinum, Holocentrum Klunzinger [C. B.] 1870:725 [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 20; ref. 2621] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Syntypes: BMNH 1871.7.15.33 (1), ZIN 2660 (1), ZMB 7896 (1). •Synonym of Flammeo sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:71 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1985:4 [ref. 5144], Golani & Fricke 2018:45 [ref. 36273]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

rubrofuscus, Holocentrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] (ex Commerson) 1802:343, 389 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 4; ref. 4929] Near Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:49 [ref. 20740]. Based on Commerson manuscript. •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Fricke 1999:132-133 [ref. 24106]). •Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Current status: Synonym of Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Habitat: marine.

sammara, Sciaena Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:48, xii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ZMUC P4042 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:58 [ref. 9588]. Holotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pls. 15-16 [ref. 20847]. Spelled samara in Rüppell 1829:85 [ref. 3843]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:23 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Flammeo sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:71 [ref. 29757], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:112 [ref. 6441]). •Valid as Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1985:4 [ref. 5144], Randall & Heemstra 1986:416 [ref. 5707], Allen & Swainston 1988:42 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:379 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:17 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:64 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:159 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:17 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:95 [ref. 22896], Kotlyar 1996:83 [ref. 23292], Allen 1997:66 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:64 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:64 [ref. 25919], Kotlyar 1998:204 [ref. 24674], Myers 1999:83 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:132 [ref. 24106], Randall & Greenfield 1999:2245 [ref. 24790], Randall 1999:9 [ref. 25829], Nakabo 2000:492 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:601 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:144 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:9 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:96 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:492 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:226, 550 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:617 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:31 [ref. 27510] dated 1831, Lobel & Lobel 2004:69 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:119 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3318 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:135 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:93 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:309 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:780 [ref. 29066], Randall 2007:151 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:34 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:52 [ref. 30463], Fricke et al. 2011:373 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:173 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:252 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:73 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:42 [ref. 33932], Copus et al. 2015:2 [ref. 33666], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Eguchi & Motomura 2016:85 [ref. 34690], Koeda et al. 2016:17 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:2 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2018:114 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:45 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:18 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:84 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:67 [ref. 36871], Ota 2020:10 [ref. 38493] as samara, Psomadakis et al. 2020:351 [ref. 37272], Yoshigou 2021:50 [ref. 38991], Mehanna & Osman 2022:665 [ref. 39407]). •Valid as Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:23 [ref. 30182], Randall & Heemstra 2022:392 [ref. 39719], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Neoniphon sammara (Fabricius 1775). Holocentridae: Holocentrinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Line Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Kochi Prefecture (Japan), Ogasawara Islands (Japan) and Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), south to Western Australia at 20°33'S, Lord Howe Island (Australia), Tonga and Rapa (French Polynesia); eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea migrant). Habitat: marine.