Species that contain: Pteranthias and longimanus [ 1 ] records

longimanus, Pteranthias Weber [M.] 1913:209, Fig. 54 [Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition; ref. 4602] Paternoster Island, East Indies, Siboga station 315, depth 36 meters. Lectotype: ZMA 113364. Paralectotypes: (7) SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 818 [ex ZMA 100477] (1); ZMA 100475-78 (1, 1, 2, 1). Type catalog: Anderson 2018:30 [ref. 36146]. Lectotype selected by Randall 1980:149 [ref. 6717]. •Valid as Plectranthias longimanus (Weber 1913) -- (Randall 1980:148 [ref. 6717], Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:134 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Randall 1986:514 [ref. 5667], Paxton et al. 1989:507 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:28 [ref. 13251], Lee 1990:17 [ref. 19830], Randall et al. 1990:90 [ref. 15987], Collette & Parin 1991:10 [ref. 19110], Randall 1996:120 [ref. 23194], Randall et al. 1997:90 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:106 [ref. 23965], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2470 [ref. 24815], Nakabo 2000:694 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:610 [ref. 25122], Chen & Shao 2002:64 [ref. 25977], Nakabo 2002:694 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:32 [ref. 26830], Lobel & Lobel 2004:70 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:12 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:138 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:990 [ref. 29078], Heemstra & Randall 2009:11 [ref. 30535], Fricke et al. 2011:386 [ref. 31242], Wu et al. 2011:252 [ref. 31227], Allen & Erdmann 2012:288 [ref. 31980], Williams et al. 2013:172 [ref. 32703], Fricke et al. 2014:63 [ref. 33932], Allen & Walsh 2015:83 [ref. 33954], Koeda et al. 2016:28 [ref. 35333], Anderson 2018:30 [ref. 36146], Fricke et al. 2018:156 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:121 [ref. 36673], Parenti & Randall 2020:27 [ref. 37354], Prokofiev 2020:33 [27] [ref. 37917], Shepherd et al. 2020:159 [ref. 37583], Wada et al. 2020:9 [ref. 37270], Gill et al. 2021:77 [ref. 38105], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:98 [ref. 39746]). Current status: Valid as Plectranthias longimanus (Weber 1913). Anthiadidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Aliwal Shoal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Chagos Archipelago east to Marshall Islands, Fiji and Tonga, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Australia (Timor Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, southern Queensland) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.