Species that contain: Plesiops and coeruleolineatus [ 5 ] records

apoda, Plesiops nigricans var. Kner [R.] 1868:346 [54] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 58 (nos 3-4); ref. 2646] Savai'i, Samoa; Kandavu, Fiji Islands. No types known. On p. 54 of separate. •Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Mooi 1995:18 [ref. 22053]). Current status: Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835. Plesiopidae: Plesiopinae. Habitat: marine.

coeruleolineatus, Plesiops Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1835:5, Pl. 2 (fig. 5) [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Syntypes: SMF 1696 (1). Originally coeruleo-lineatus. •Valid as Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Dor 1984:107 [ref. 29757], Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:140 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:543 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:60 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:526 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:133 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:29 [ref. 25356], Mooi 1995:18 [ref. 22053], Randall 1995:146 [ref. 22896], Kuiter 1997:130 [ref. 25488] as caeruleolineatus, Randall et al. 1997:133 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:123 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:215 [ref. 24106], Mooi 1999:2585 [ref. 24831], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:739 [ref. 25086], Mooi in Randall & Lim 2000:612 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:99 [ref. 25868], Shinohara et al. 2000:177 [ref. 25987], Sakai et al. 2001:94 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:31 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:739 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:317, 595 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:34 [ref. 26830] as caeruleolineatus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S105 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:623 [ref. 27495] as caeruleolineatus, Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:120 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3320 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:179 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:190 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Gates 2006:1055 [ref. 28997], Fricke et al. 2009:49 [ref. 30213], Motomura 2009:98 [ref. 30446], Motomura et al. 2010:104 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:348 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:104 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:68 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:31 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:4 [ref. 35354], Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Fricke et al. 2018:162 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:69 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:25 [ref. 36883], Zajonz et al. 2019:72 [ref. 36871], Kim et al. 2020:117 [ref. 39118], Koreeda in Motomura et al. 2021:21 [ref. 38121], Mooi 2022:149 [ref. 39750], Murase et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40935]). Current status: Valid as Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835. Plesiopidae: Plesiopinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya), Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos) and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

melas, Plesiops Bleeker [P.] 1849:9 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 22 [7]; ref. 321] Boleling, northern Bali, Indonesia. Holotype: RMNH 23432 [ex RMNH 6352]. •Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Mooi 1995:18 [ref. 22053], Randall 2005:190 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:329 [ref. 28867], Mooi 2022:149 [ref. 39750]). Current status: Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835. Plesiopidae: Plesiopinae. Habitat: marine.

riukianus, Pseudochromichthys Schmidt [P. Yu.] 1931:180, Fig. 1 [Transactions of the Pacific Committee of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. v. 2; ref. 3938] Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZIN 23413. •Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Mooi 1995:18 [ref. 22053]). Current status: Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835. Plesiopidae: Plesiopinae. Habitat: marine.

semeion, Plesiops Tanaka [S.] 1917:200 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 29 (no. 345); ref. 4330] Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZUMT 54367 [not 54386]. Appeared as "Plesims seeion" which apparently was mis-typeset for Plesiops semeion, later illustrated and described in Tanaka 1918:500, Pl. 137 (fig. 382) as Pharopteryx semeion. •Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835. Current status: Synonym of Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835. Plesiopidae: Plesiopinae. Habitat: marine.