stellatus, Lophius Vahl [M.] 1797:214, Pl. 3 (figs. 3-4) [Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet Kiøbenhavn v. 4; ref. 17847] China. No types known. •Valid as Halieutaea stellata (Vahl 1797) -- (Herrera 1896:73 [ref. 39336], Kailola 1971:131 [ref. 39475], Kyushin et al. 1982:312 [ref. 19754], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:105 [ref. 6441], Yamakawa in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:281, 381 [ref. 8057], Paxton et al. 1989:285 [ref. 12442], Chen et al. 1997:188 [ref. 26476] dated 1798, Cheng & Zhou 1997:498 [ref. 26385] dated 1798, Lindberg et al. 1997:236 [ref. 23547], Bradbury 1999:2025 [ref. 24767], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Nakabo 2000:465 [ref. 25086], Bradbury in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Youn et al. 2000:257 [ref. 25179], Hutchins 2001:22 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:310 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:465 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:214, 542 [ref. 26218], Bradbury 2003:6 [ref. 27309], Shinohara et al. 2005:419 [ref. 28370], Paxton et al. 2006:654 [ref. 28995], Ho & Shao 2008:300 [ref. 30133], Fricke et al. 2011:368 [ref. 31242], Shinohara et al. 2011:41 [ref. 31715], Ho et al. 2013:196 [ref. 32518], Larson et al. 2013:55 [ref. 32988], Shinohara et al. 2014:243 [ref. 33330], Ho 2015:898 [ref. 34268], Motomura et al. 2017:56 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:73 [ref. 36673], Prokofiev 2019:627 [ref. 37246], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:75 [ref. 39118], Prokofiev 2020:334 [ref. 37735], Sonoyama et al. 2020:33 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Halieutaea stellata (Vahl 1797). Ogcocephalidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India and Bangladesh east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Sea of Japan (Korea and Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.