squamipinne, Pycnocraspedum Alcock [A. W.] 1889:386 [12] [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 4 (no. 23); ref. 81] Bay of Bengal, 20°17'30"N, 88°50'E, Investigator, depth 193 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1890.7.31.1 [ex ZSI F11702] (1); ZSI F11700 (1), F11703 (1). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:150 [ref. 20743], Menon and Rama-Rao 1970:377 [ref. 27516] as squamipinnae, Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:41 [ref. 22148] as squammipinae. On p. 12 of separate. Figured in Alcock 1898: Pl. 21 (fig. 1) [ref. 20534] as Neobythites squamipinnis. •Valid as Pycnocraspedum squamipinne Alcock 1889 -- (Paxton et al. 1989:313 [ref. 12442], Nielsen 1997:76 [ref. 23255], Nielsen & Cohen in Nielsen et al. 1999:87 [ref. 24448], Nielsen 1999:1981 [ref. 24753], Hutchins 2001:23 [ref. 25847], Prokofiev 2005:118 [ref. 34466] as cf. squamipinne and squamipinne, Evseenko & Okiyama 2006:192 [ref. 28760], Hoese et al. 2006:565 [ref. 29051], Fricke et al. 2011:367 [ref. 31242], Fricke et al. 2018:85 [ref. 35805], Psomadakis et al. 2020:326 [ref. 37272] as cf. squamipinne, Jayakumar et al. 2021:78 [ref. 38224], Nielsen & Uiblein 2022:252 [ref. 39706], Prokofiev 2022:685 [1024] [ref. 40458]). Current status: Valid as Pycnocraspedum squamipinne Alcock 1889. Ophidiidae: Neobythitinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Kenya south to Mozambique, east to Madagascar; northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.