Species that contain: Platycephalus and beauforti [ 1 ] records

beauforti, Platycephalus (Cymbacephalus) Knapp [L. W.] 1973:119, Fig. 1 [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington v. 86 (no. 10); ref. 7571] Off Urukthapel Island, Palau Islands, Garamejo region, Ngaremedin District, Pacific, 7°15'15"N, 134°26'51"E. Holotype: CAS 15768. Paratypes: BMNH 1972.12.5.13 (1); BPBM 9641 (1); CAS 15745-61 (1, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2), 15763-67 (1, 2, 1, 1, 1); USNM 208427 (1). •Valid as Cymbacephalus beauforti (Knapp 1973) -- (Imamura 1996:204 [ref. 22700], Myers 1999:104 [ref. 23965], Knapp 1999:2394 [ref. 24807], Nakabo 2000:617 [ref. 25086], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:173 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:97 [ref. 25868], Nakabo 2002:617 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:30 [ref. 26830], Randall 2005:132 [ref. 28239], Shao et al. 2008:247 [ref. 29952], Fricke et al. 2011:382 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:254 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:56 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:107 [ref. 36673], Imamura 2020:[5] [ref. 37798]). Current status: Valid as Cymbacephalus beauforti (Knapp 1973). Platycephalidae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia east to Palau and Yap (Micronesia), north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.