arabicus, Bregmaceros D'Ancona [U.] & Cavinato [G.] 1965:59, Figs. 49-51 [Dana Report No. 64; ref. 9208] Arabian Sea and northern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: (65) BMNH (59) Arabian Sea. •Mention -- (Cohen in Cohen et al. 1990:16 [ref. 18936]). •Valid as Bregmaceros arabicus D'Ancona & Cavinato 1965 -- (Dor 1984:58 [ref. 29757], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:92 [ref. 6441], Masuda et al. 1986:393 [ref. 5801], Goren & Dor 1994:15 [ref. 25356], Shinohara et al. 1996:171 [ref. 26605], Nakabo 2000:415 [ref. 25086], Shinohara et al. 2001:303 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:415 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S98 [ref. 27377], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:414 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:31 [ref. 33932], Ali et al. 2018:313 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:38 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:32 [ref. 37020], Ho et al. 2020:570 [ref. 37555], Ho et al. 2020:568 [ref. 37586], Anderson 2022:243 [ref. 39705]). Current status: Valid as Bregmaceros arabicus D'Ancona & Cavinato 1965. Bregmacerotidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Oman east to Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan. Habitat: marine.