Species that contain: Pyramodon and ventralis [ 1 ] records

ventralis, Pyramodon Smith [H. M.] & Radcliffe [L.] in Radcliffe 1913:175, Pl. 17 (fig. 3) [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 44 (no. 1948); ref. 3579] Near Dowora Island, south of Halmahera, Molucca Islands, Indonesia, 0°50'00"S, 128°12'00"E, Albatross station 5629, depth 205 fathoms. Holotype: USNM 74155. •Valid as Pyramodon ventralis Smith & Radcliffe 1913 -- (Cohen & Nielsen 1978:7 [ref. 881], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:99 [ref. 6441], Paxton et al. 1989:321 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:132 [ref. 24556], Markle & Olney 1990:334 [ref. 18996], Machida & Okamura 1993:153 [ref. 22280], Nielsen 1997:53 [ref. 23255], Markle in Nielsen et al. 1999:20 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1978 [ref. 24753], Nakabo 2000:445 [ref. 25086], Markle in Randall & Lim 2000:596 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:307 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:445 [ref. 26001], Mundy 2005:241 [ref. 28379], Hoese et al. 2006:555 [ref. 29051], Randall 2007:122 [ref. 30952], Nielsen & Møller 2008:22 [ref. 29803], Fricke et al. 2009:27 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:366 [ref. 31242], Joshi et al. 2016:4 [ref. 34679], Psomadakis et al. 2020:327 [ref. 37272], Heemstra 2022:261 [ref. 39704]). Current status: Valid as Pyramodon ventralis Smith & Radcliffe 1913. Carapidae: Pyramodontinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.