Species that contain: Taractes and asper [ 4 ] records

asper, Taractes Lowe [R. T.] 1843:83 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1843 (pt 11); ref. 2832] Madeira, eastern Atlantic. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Taractes asper Lowe 1843 -- (Mead 1972:21 [ref. 6976], Mead 1973:386 [ref. 7199], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:159 [ref. 6441], Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986:851 [ref. 13676], Smith 1986:635 [ref. 5712], Peden & Jamieson 1988:492 [ref. 12864], Paulin et al. 1989:186 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:148 [ref. 14674], Gomes 1990:762 [ref. 18692], Thompson & Russell 1996:192 [ref. 23156], Santos et al. 1997:88 [ref. 23531], Pequeño 1997:83 [ref. 23536], Arruda 1997:87 [ref. 24952], Anderson et al. 1998:24 [ref. 23611], Moteki & Nagasawa 1998:419 [ref. 23629], Parin & Shcherbachev 1998:420 [ref. 24907], Nakabo 2000:816 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:325 [ref. 25995], Last & Moteki 2001:2835 [ref. 26096], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:653 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:816 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:335, 610 [ref. 26218], Moore et al. 2003:226 [ref. 27076], Thompson 2003:1472 [ref. 27088], Nelson et al. 2004:142 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:120 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:377 [ref. 28379], Bray et al. 2006:1186 [ref. 29088], Fricke 2007:27 [ref. 30577], Carvalho-Filho et al. 2009:24 [ref. 30553], Page et al. 2013:146 [ref. 32708], González-Lorenzo et al. 2014:298 [ref. 33191], Shinohara et al. 2014:261 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:366 [ref. 33547], Stewart et al. 2015:1269 [ref. 34201], Bañón et al. 2016:323 [ref. 34397], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2518 [ref. 34618], Kells et al. 2016:240 [ref. 35888], Fricke et al. 2018:192 [ref. 35805], Carneiro et al. 2019:259 [ref. 37250], Sonoyama et al. 2020:67 [ref. 37637], Sutton et al. 2020:275 [ref. 37832], Bañón & Maño 2021:84 [ref. 38887], Love et al. 2021:158 [ref. 39279], Anderson 2022:23 [ref. 39875], Page et al. 2023:116 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Taractes asper Lowe 1843. Bramidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in temperate and marginally tropical seas, antiequatorial (including Sea of Japan). Habitat: marine.

barretoi, Trachyberyx Roule [L.] 1929:2, Fig. [Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique (Monaco) No. 546; ref. 3822] Madeira. Holotype: MON 91 1731 [ex 3476-2]. Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:38 [ref. 20740]. •Synonym of Taractes asper Lowe 1843 -- (Mead 1972:25 [ref. 6976], Mead 1973:386 [ref. 7199], Gomes 1990:762 [ref. 18692]). Current status: Synonym of Taractes asper Lowe 1843. Bramidae. Habitat: marine.

platycephalus, Taractes Matsubara [K.] 1936:297, Fig. 1 [Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries v. 4 (no. 5); ref. 17609] Sagami Bay, Japan. Holotype: not at FAKU. •Synonym of Taractes asper Lowe 1843 -- (Mead 1972:25 [ref. 6976], Mead 1973:386 [ref. 7199], Gomes 1990:762 [ref. 18692], Mundy 2005:377 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Taractes asper Lowe 1843. Bramidae. Habitat: marine.

raschii, Brama Esmark [L.] 1862:239, Pl. [Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania (for 1861); ref. 17458] Altafjord, northern Norway. Holotype (unique) (?): ZMUO J4612. Type catalog: Pethon 1969:6 [ref. 19268]. •Synonym of Taractes asper Lowe 1843 -- (Mead 1972:24 [ref. 6976], Mead 1973:386 [ref. 7199], Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986:851 [ref. 13676], Gomes 1990:762 [ref. 18692]). Current status: Synonym of Taractes asper Lowe 1843. Bramidae. Habitat: marine.