fornasini, Ostracion Bianconi [G. G.] 1846:115, Pl. 1 (figs. 1-2) [Nuovi Annali delle Scienze naturali Bologna (Ser. 2) v. 5; ref. 16815] Mozambique, western Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MZUB 131. Also appeared as new in Bianconi 1850:175, 177 [ref. 26451], Bianconi 1850:7 [ref. 295] as fornasinii and Bianconi 1855:151 [ref. 26452] with figure, and in Bianconi 1869:215 [ref. 26457] (in addenda et corrigenda). Sometimes spelled fornasinii by Bianconi but original spelling was fornasini. •Valid as Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi 1846) -- (Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:362 [ref. 6441], Matsuura in Okamura et al. 1985:633, 746 [ref. 8056], Smith 1986:892 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:154 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:468 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:414 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:168 [ref. 25479], Lindberg et al. 1997:107 [ref. 23547], Kuiter 1997:406 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:468 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:29 [ref. 23611], Allen 1997:246 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:287 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:597 [ref. 24106] as fornasinii, Johnson 1999:754 [ref. 25471], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1415 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3949 [ref. 26317], Nakabo 2002:1415 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:65 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:639 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:531 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1906 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:484 [ref. 30952], Motomura et al. 2010:236 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1082 [ref. 31980], Matsuura 2014:17 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2018:382 [ref. 35805], Heemstra 2022:448 [ref. 40260]). Current status: Valid as Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi 1846). Ostraciidae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Western Cape (South Africa); Indo-West Pacific: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Madagascar, Mascarenes (Mauritius) and Maldives east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, south to Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Habitat: marine.
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