japonicum, Melanostoma Döderlein [L.] in Steindachner & Döderlein 1883:124 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 20 (no. 15) (for 14 June 1883); ref. 20490] Tokyo, Japan. Holotype (unique): NMW 76006. Species illustrated and described in more detail in Steindachner & Döderlein 1883:5, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [ref. 4247]. •Valid as Synagrops japonicus (Döderlein 1883) -- (Fricke 1999:173 [ref. 24106] with author as Günther 1859, Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1982:225, 375 [ref. 8256], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:124 [ref. 6441], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:457, 662 [ref. 8056], Heemstra 1986:563 [ref. 5660], Paxton et al. 1989:515 [ref. 12442], Adam et al. 1998:12 [ref. 23610], Carpenter 1999:2437 [ref. 24813], Nakabo 2000:685 [ref. 25086], Hutchins 2001:29 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:320 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:685 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:307, 589 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Shinohara et al. 2005:430 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:338 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:979 [ref. 28994], Prokofiev 2006:5 [ref. 28960], Randall 2007:185 [ref. 30952], Yamanoue & Toda 2008:200 [ref. 29613] with author as Günther 1859, Fricke et al. 2009:42 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:383 [ref. 31242], Shinohara et al. 2011:48 [ref. 31715], Larson et al. 2013:97 [ref. 32988], Shinohara et al. 2014:259 [ref. 33330], Motomura et al. 2015:19 [ref. 34709], Heemstra in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2361 [ref. 34618], Schwarzhans & Prokofiev 2017:57 [ref. 35293], Motomura et al. 2017:79 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:143 [ref. 35805], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 20 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:113 [ref. 39118], Kawai et al. 2020:44 [ref. 37785], Psomadakis et al. 2020:381 [ref. 37272] as aff. japonicus, Kovačić et al. 2021:64 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:297 [ref. 39448] misidentified, Heemstra 2022:162 [ref. 39747]). Current status: Valid as Synagrops japonicus (Döderlein 1883). Synagropidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos), western Mascarenes (La Réunion) and Maldives east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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