Species that contain: Symphurus and ligulatus [ 2 ] records

ligulata, Bibronia Cocco [A.] 1844:26 [6], Fig. 2 [Giornale del Gabinetto Letterario di Messina Anno 3, Tomo 5; ref. 866] Gulf of Patti, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. Neotype: CSI 2507. On p. 6 of separate. Original spelling was liculata regarded as in error by all authors and emended to ligulata. Neotype designated by Torchio 1971 [ref. 19717]. •Valid as Symphurus ligulatus (Cocco 1844) -- (Torchio 1973:636 [ref. 6892], Quéro et al. in Whitehead et al. 1986:1327 [ref. 13677], Desoutter 1990:1053 [ref. 18967], Munroe 1990:467 [ref. 19191], Evseenko 1998:61 [ref. 23643] as ligulata, Krabbenhoft & Munroe 2003:815 [ref. 27261], Goren et al. 2006:2 [ref. 38828], Goren & Galil 2015:511 [ref. 33910], Munroe in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3041 [ref. 34618], Carneiro et al. 2019:196 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:301 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:101 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:28 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:87 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:47 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:234 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Symphurus ligulatus (Cocco 1844). Cynoglossidae: Symphurinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Angola, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.

vanmelleae, Symphurus Chabanaud [P.] 1952:3 [Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique v. 28 (no. 69); ref. 12687] Northwest of Egito, 11°53'S, 13°20'E, South Atlantic, depth 500 meters. Holotype: IRSNB 439. Paratypes: (4) IRSNB 440 (1), MRAC 140383-84 (1, 1). Type catalog: Walschaerts 1987:48 [ref. 20755], Desoutter et al. 2001:352-353 [ref. 25922]. Misspelled vanmellae in literature. •Synonym of Symphurus ligulatus (Cocco 1844) -- (Torchio 1973:636 [ref. 6892] with question, Desoutter 1990:1053 [ref. 18967]). •Valid as Symphurus vanmelleae Chabanaud 1952 -- (Munroe 1990:467 [ref. 19191], Munroe 1996:47 [ref. 22303], Munroe et al. 2000:499 [ref. 24450], Munroe et al. 2011:63 [ref. 31567], Munroe in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3047 [ref. 34618], Fermon et al. 2022:235 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Symphurus vanmelleae Chabanaud 1952. Cynoglossidae: Symphurinae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Equatorial Guinea south to northern Angola. Habitat: marine.