cristatus, Samaris Gray [J. E.] 1831:5 [Zoological Miscellany [No. 1] (art. 6); ref. 1880] China, western North Pacific. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1977.4.22.8. •Valid as Samaris cristatus Gray 1831 -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:265 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:269 [ref. 29757], Sakamoto in Masuda et al. 1984:354 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:864 [ref. 5660], Allen & Swainston 1988:146 [ref. 25477], Quéro et al. 1989:108 [ref. 12826], Feng in Pan et al. 1991:528 [ref. 23876], Goren & Dor 1994:71 [ref. 25356], Li & Wang 1995:270 [ref. 16193], Evseenko 1996:730 [ref. 24666], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:595 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:234 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:176 [ref. 26476], Amaoka in Randall & Lim 2000:645 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1381 [ref. 25182], Hensley 2001:3870 [ref. 26313], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:336 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:1381 [ref. 26193], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S122 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:47 [ref. 27712], Amaoka et al. 2004:4 [ref. 28026], Randall 2005:615 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1839 [ref. 29000], Mihara & Amaoka 2004:620 [ref. 28027], Ho et al. 2009:11 [ref. 31461], Kimura 2009:319 [ref. 30426], Ohashi & Motomura 2011:101 [ref. 32413], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1048 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:225 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:216 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:325 [ref. 34104], Voronina et al. 2016:394 [ref. 35064], Voronina & Suzumoto 2017:7 [ref. 35132], Motomura et al. 2017:221 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:371 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:174 [ref. 36273], Psomadakis et al. 2020:593 [ref. 37272], Hensley & Amaoka 2022:363 [ref. 40233], Vilasri et al. 2023:98 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Samaris cristatus Gray 1831. Samaridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Madagascar east to Philippines, north to Taiwan and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and to Solomon Islands. Habitat: marine.