Species that contain: Platycephalus and nematophthalmus [ 2 ] records

nematophthalmus, Platycephalus Günther [A.] 1860:184 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 2; ref. 1963] Victoria River and Port Essington, Australia. Syntypes: BMNH 1855.9.19.96 (1), 1858.12.27.28 (1, stuffed). •Valid as Papilloculiceps nematophthalmus (Günther 1860) -- (Allen 1997:80 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:353 [ref. 23967]). •Valid as Cymbacephalus nematophthalmus (Günther 1860) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:52 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:466 [ref. 12442], Imamura 1996:204 [ref. 22700], Knapp 1999:2396 [ref. 24807], Johnson 1999:728 [ref. 25471], Knapp in Randall & Lim 2000:607 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:28 [ref. 25847], Allen & Adrim 2003:30 [ref. 26830], Paxton et al. 2006:935 [ref. 29079], Fricke et al. 2011:382 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:255 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:89 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:317 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:56 [ref. 33932], Imamura in Kimura et al. 2015:31 [ref. 34319], Motomura et al. 2017:72 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2019:107 [ref. 36673], Imamura 2020:[4] [ref. 37798]). Current status: Valid as Cymbacephalus nematophthalmus (Günther 1860). Platycephalidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Malaysia and Indonesia east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), south to Shark Bay (Western Australia) and northern New South Wales (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

staigeri, Platycephalus Castelnau [F. L.] 1875:17 [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] Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Platycephalus staigeri Castelnau 1875 -- (Paxton et al. 1989:471 [ref. 12442] but possibly a synonym of Platycephalus nematophthalmus Günther 1860). •Valid as Suggrundus staigeri (Castelnau 1875) -- (Larson & Williams 1997:354 [ref. 23967], Hutchins 2001:29 [ref. 25847]). •Valid as Cymbacephalus staigeri (Castelnau 1875) -- (Imamura 1996:204 [ref. 22700], Knapp 1999:2397 [ref. 24807], Johnson 1999:728 [ref. 25471], Paxton et al. 2006:936 [ref. 29079], Fricke et al. 2011:382 [ref. 31242], Larson et al. 2013:90 [ref. 32988]). •Synonym of Cymbacephalus nematophthalmus (Günther 1860) -- (Imamura 2020:[4] [ref. 37798]). Current status: Synonym of Cymbacephalus nematophthalmus (Günther 1860). Platycephalidae. Habitat: marine.