Species that contain: Ophichthus and lithinus [ 2 ] records

evermanni, Ophichthus Jordan [D. S.] & Richardson [R. E.] 1909:172, Pl. 67 (upper fig.) [Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 4 (no. 4); ref. 2493] Kaohsiung (Takao), Taiwan. Holotype: FMNH 52118 [ex CM 246]. Paratypes: CAS-SU 21260 (1). Type catalog: Henn 1928:53 [ref. 12305], Böhlke 1953:50 [ref. 12291], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:62 [ref. 12367], Ho & Shao 2011:23 [ref. 31432]. Type designated in Pl. 67. •Valid as Ophichthus evermanni Jordan & Richardson 1909 -- (McCosker 1977:81 [ref. 6836], Asano in Masuda et al. 1984:31 [ref. 6441], Chen et al. 1997:22 [ref. 26476], Lee & Asano 1997:551 [ref. 23711], Smith & McCosker 1999:1669 [ref. 24715], Nakabo 2000:222 [ref. 25086], McCosker in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:17 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:222 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:143, 491 [ref. 26218], Tang & Zhang 2004:21 [ref. 27889], Zhang et al. 2010:335 [ref. 31511], Ji & Kim 2011:66 [ref. 31152]). •Synonym of Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson 1908) -- (McCosker et al. 2006:272 [ref. 29006], Ho & Shao 2011:23 [ref. 31432], Ho et al. 2015:8 [ref. 34116], Ho et al. 2015:172 [ref. 34130], McCosker & Psomadakis 2018:79 [ref. 36333], Vo et al. 2019:9 [ref. 37206]). Current status: Synonym of Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson 1908). Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Habitat: marine.

lithinus, Leiuranus Jordan [D. S.] & Richardson [R. E.] 1908:238, Fig. 3 [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 27(Doc. 640) (for 1907); ref. 2492] Cuyo, Philippines. Holotype (unique): CAS-SU 20211. Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:49 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson 1908) -- (McCosker et al. 2006:272 [ref. 29006], Ho & Shao 2011:23 [ref. 31432], McCosker et al. 2012:7 [ref. 31982], Larson et al. 2013:27 [ref. 32988], McCosker 2014:339 [ref. 33288], Ho et al. 2015:8 [ref. 34116], McCosker & Ho 2015:72 [ref. 34123], Ho et al. 2015:172 [ref. 34130], McCosker & Psomadakis 2018:79 [ref. 36333], Hibino et al. 2019:302 [ref. 36433], Vo et al. 2019:9 [ref. 37206], McCosker et al. 2020:33 [ref. 37376], Psomadakis et al. 2020:277 [ref. 37272], Ji et al. 2021:242 [ref. 39406], Mia et al. 2022:38 [ref. 39919], Kodeeswaran et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40457]). Current status: Valid as Ophichthus lithinus (Jordan & Richardson 1908). Ophichthidae: Ophichthinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: India, Bangladesh and Myanmar east to Philippines, north to Taiwan, Korea and Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.