pictus, Lophius Shaw [G.] in Shaw & Nodder 1794:no page number, Pl. 176 (upper fig.) [The Naturalist's Miscellany; ref. 4013] Tahiti, Society Islands. Neotype: BPBM 15441. Type catalog: Pietsch & Arnold 2020:149 [ref. 38284]. Neotype designated by Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:79 [ref. 20669]. •Valid as Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794) -- (Pietsch 1984:34 [ref. 5380], Pietsch 1986:368 [ref. 5704], Allen & Swainston 1988:38 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:278 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:55 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:47 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:14 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:84 [ref. 22896], Lindberg et al. 1997:217 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:62 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:44 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:55 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:22 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:69 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:106 [ref. 24106], Pietsch 1999:2015 [ref. 24766], Johnson 1999:724 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:457 [ref. 25086], Pietsch in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:22 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:457 [ref. 26001], Randall et al. 2002:155 [ref. 26192], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830] with authors as Shaw & Nodder, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:614 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624] with authors as Shaw & Nodder, Randall 2005:72 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:264 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:640 [ref. 29066] with authorship as Shaw & Nodder, Randall 2007:129 [ref. 30952] with authorship as Shaw & Nodder, Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Motomura 2009:41 [ref. 30446], Motomura et al. 2010:78 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:368 [ref. 31242], Arnold & Pietsch 2012:128 [ref. 31574], Allen & Erdmann 2012:148 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:54 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:35 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:88 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:38 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:72 [ref. 36673], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:145 [ref. 38284], Arnold & Pietsch 2022:291 [ref. 39710], Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935]). Current status: Valid as Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794). Antennariidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Aliwal Shoals (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan and Midway Atoll, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), Norfolk Island (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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