Species that contain: Platybelone and argalus and platyura [ 9 ] records

carinata, Belone Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:437 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Guayaquil (Ecuador) to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.). Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9125. Type catalog: Collette et al. 1997:7 [ref. 22813]. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1831 -- (Mees 1962:58 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), subspecies platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (Parin 1967:13 [ref. 10272], Collette 2003:4, 14 [ref. 27306], Mundy 2005:281 [ref. 28379]). •Synonym of Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (authors). Current status: Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821). Belonidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

dorsalis, Platybelone Whitley [G. P.] 1932:335 [Records of the Australian Museum v. 18 (no. 6); ref. 4674] Northwestern Australia. Holotype: BMNH 1855.9.19.1087. Based on specimen mentioned in Günther 1909, Fische der Südsee v. 3 (no. 8):349 [ref. 14377]. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:59 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), subspecies platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (Parin 1967:13 [ref. 10272] as argula, Collette 2003:4, 14 [ref. 27306]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821) -- (Paxton et al. 1989:342 [ref. 12442] as argula, Paxton et al. 2006:716 [ref. 28995]). •Synonym of Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832) (authors). Current status: Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821). Belonidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

longleyi, Strongylura Breder [C. M., Jr.] 1932:12, Pls. 2 (fig. 1), 3 (fig. 5), 9 [Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications No. 435; ref. 13366] Dry Tortugas, Monroe County, Florida, U.S.A. Holotype: AMNH 9686 (missing since 1/1961). Paratypes: (10) AMNH 30454 (1). •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:59 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus argulus (Lesueur 1821) -- (Collette 2003:4, 15 [ref. 27306]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821). Current status: Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821). Belonidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

lovii, Belone Günther [A.] 1866:236 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 6; ref. 1983] Cape Verde Islands [eastern Atlantic]. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1866.4.10.1. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:58 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), but a valid subspecies -- (Collette & Parin 1970:30 [ref. 7415], Parin 1973 [ref. 7191], Collette & Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:607 [ref. 13676], Collette & Parin 1990:594 [ref. 16473], Collette 2003:4, 15 [ref. 27306], Collette 2016:2124 [ref. 34601]). •Valid as Platybelone lovii (Günther 1866) -- (Wirtz et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32972]). Current status: Valid as Platybelone lovii (Günther 1866). Belonidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde Islands [if valid]. Habitat: marine.

persimilis, Belone Günther [A.] 1909:349 [Journal des Museum Godeffroy v. 6 (no. 16); ref. 14377] Honolulu and Kailua, Hawaiian Islands, U.S.A. Syntypes: BMNH 1883.12.15.96-97 (2). Based on Belone platyura (non Bennett 1832) of Jordan & Evermann 1905:122, fig. 38 [ref. 2451]. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:58 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821) subspecies platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (Parin 1967:13 [ref. 10272], Collette 2003:4, 15 [ref. 27306]). •Synonym of Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (authors). Current status: Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821). Belonidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

platura, Belone Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1837:73, Pl. 20 (fig. 1) [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 673. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1860.11.9.70 [from Rüppell] (1) Red Sea; SMF 11913 (3), 11914 (1, skeleton). Lectotype established by Dor 1984:19 [ref. 29757] if not designated earlier. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:58 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus [sometimes as argala] (Lesueur 1821), but a valid subspecies -- (Parin 1967:18 [ref. 10272], Dor 1984:64 [ref. 29757], Goren & Dor 1994:16 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:86 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:128 [ref. 23922], Fricke 1999:116 [ref. 24106], Collette 2003:4, 16 [ref. 27306], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Mundy 2005:281 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:716 [ref. 28995], Motomura et al. 2010:82 [ref. 31256]). •Valid as Platybelone platura (Rüppell 1837) -- (Golani & Fricke 2018:43 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Platybelone platura (Rüppell 1837). Belonidae. Distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Habitat: marine.

platyura, Belone Bennett [E. T.] 1832:168 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 4944] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. •Valid as Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:57 [ref. 13277], Allen 1997:64 [ref. 23977]). •Synonym of Platybelone argulus (Lesueur 1821) -- (Collette & Berry 1965:391 [ref. 13367], Collette & Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:607 [ref. 13676], Pequeño 1989:50 [ref. 14125], Randall et al. 1990:58 [ref. 15987], Myers 1999:74 [ref. 23965]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), but a valid subspecies platyura -- (Parin 1967:13 [ref. 10272], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:78 [ref. 6441], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1997:58 [ref. 25919], Collette 1999:2155 [ref. 24785], Randall 1999:8 [ref. 25829], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:599 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:563 [ref. 25086], Randall & Earle 2000:9 [ref. 25806], Nakabo 2002:563 [ref. 26001], Collette 2003:4, 16 [ref. 27306], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:9 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:14 [ref. 35333], Matsunuma 2020:7 [ref. 38476], Collette 2022:376 [ref. 39718]). •Valid as Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:40 [ref. 25477], Allen & Adrim 2003:26 [ref. 26830], Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Eagderi et al. 2019:21 [ref. 37020]). Current status: Valid as Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832). Belonidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Easter Island and Sala-y-Gomez Ridge, north to southern Japan, east coast of central Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Kimberley (Western Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands and Rapa (French Polynesia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

pterurus, Tylosurus Osburn [R. C.] & Nichols [J. T.] 1916:152, Fig. 6 [Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History v. 35 (art. 16); ref. 15062] Carmen Island, Gulf of California, Mexico, Albatross station 5682. Holotype (unique): USNM 201341 [ex AMNH 5202]. Type catalog: Collette et al. 1992:5 [ref. 19410]. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:59 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), but valid subspecies pterura (Osburn & Nichols 1916) -- (Parin 1973 [ref. 7191], Allen & Robertson 1994:90 [ref. 22193], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:922 [ref. 22829], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:267 [ref. 24023], Collette 2003:4, 16 [ref. 27306], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923]). •Valid as Platybelone pterura (Osburn & Nichols 1916) -- (Fourriére et al. 2016:456 [ref. 34668] with author as Leusueur 1821). Current status: Valid as Platybelone pterura (Osburn & Nichols 1916). Belonidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine.

teatae, Esox Curtiss [A.] 1938:41 [A short zoology of Tahiti in the Society islands; ref. 18057] Lagoon near Tautira, Tahiti, Society Islands [French Polynesia, South Pacific]. No types known. •Synonym of Belone platyura Bennett 1832 -- (Mees 1962:59 [ref. 13277]). •Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821), subspecies platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (Parin 1967:13 [ref. 10272], Collette 2003:4, 16 [ref. 27306]). •Synonym of Platybelone platyura (Bennett 1832) -- (authors). Current status: Synonym of Platybelone argalus (Lesueur 1821). Belonidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.