scriptus, Balistes Osbeck [P.] 1765:145 [Reise nach Ostindien und China; ref. 3311] South China Sea, off Vietnam, between Pulo Condor and Hainan, south of 'Piedra Blanca' [western Pacific]. No types known. Osbeck referred to 'Catesby 27' but also had collected a specimen. •Valid as Alutera scripta (Osbeck 1765) -- (Berry & Vogele 1961:66 [ref. 19549], Hutchins 1977:54 [ref. 2283], Dor 1984:278 [ref. 29757], McAllister 1990:225 [ref. 14674], Goren & Dor 1994:73 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:614 [ref. 27969], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268]). •Valid as Aluteres scriptus (Osbeck 1765) -- (Wirtz et al. 2007:42 [ref. 30263], Fricke et al. 2009:118 [ref. 30213]). •Valid as Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck 1765) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:284 [ref. 19754], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:361 [ref. 6441], Hutchins 1986:883 [ref. 5673], Robins & Ray 1986:300 [ref. 23100], Edwards & Glass 1987:669 [ref. 9166], Allen & Swainston 1988:152 [ref. 25477], Scott & Scott 1988:563 [ref. 25518], Winterbottom et al. 1989:67 [ref. 13251], Harmelin-Vivien & Quéro 1990:1063 [ref. 19527], Randall et al. 1990:461 [ref. 15987], Boschung 1992:180 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:359 [ref. 23827], Kuiter 1993:408 [ref. 23929], Allen & Robertson 1994:297 [ref. 22193], Bussing & Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995:1280 [ref. 22830], Randall 1995:395 [ref. 22896], Cervigón 1996:96 [ref. 24489], Murdy et al. 1997:264 [ref. 23144], Pequeño 1997:84 [ref. 23536] as scripta, Lindberg et al. 1997:73 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:242 [ref. 23977], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:223 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:637 [ref. 24023], Kuiter 1997:400 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:461 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:284 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:590 [ref. 24106] in Aluteres, Francis et al. 1999:577 [ref. 24249], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:507 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:349 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:81 [ref. 25466], Randall 1999:30 [ref. 25829], Hutchins in Randall & Lim 2000:647 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1404 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:458 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:275 [ref. 25480], Thomson et al. 2000:270 [ref. 25640], Randall & Earle 2000:22 [ref. 25806], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:170 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1647 [ref. 25634], Hutchins 2001:270 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:47 [ref. 25847], Hutchins 2001:3936 [ref. 26316], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:594 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:1404 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:448, 692 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:64 [ref. 26830], Collette et al. 2003:127 [ref. 26784], Feitoza et al. 2003:69 [ref. 26943], Matsuura 2003:1978 [ref. 27119], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Menezes & Moura in Menezes et al. 2003:109 [ref. 27192], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:222 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:78 [ref. 27576], Smith et al. 2003:69 [ref. 27621], Randall et al. 2004:32 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27715], Freitas & Biscoito 2002:2 [ref. 27802], Nelson et al. 2004:184 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3332 [ref. 27945], Love et al. 2005:179 [ref. 37547], Randall 2005:632 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:528 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:906 [ref. 28815], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Allen et al. 2006:1881 [ref. 29098], Randall 2007:478 [ref. 30952], Matsuura 2009:330 [ref. 31171], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:234 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:92 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1070 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:136 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:233 [ref. 32988], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:87 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:12 [ref. 33516], Matsuura 2014:11 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2014:195 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:334 [ref. 34104], Stewart & Roberts 2015:1719 [ref. 34322], Pinheiro et al. 2015:34 [ref. 34324], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:150 [ref. 34871], Matsuura in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3061 [ref. 34618], Fourriére et al. 2016:451 [ref. 34668], Moazzam & Osmany 2016:2 [ref. 39994] as Aluteruss criptus, Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:612 [ref. 34923], Robertson et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34961], Nión et al. 2016:55 [ref. 35565], Motomura et al. 2017:231 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:379 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:178 [ref. 36273], Matsuura in Kimura et al. 2018:306 [ref. 36460], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Arndt & Fricke 2019:21 [ref. 36883], Brown et al. 2019:183 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:226 [ref. 37250], Fricke et al. 2019:326 [ref. 36673], Kumar et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 36793], Reiner 2019:305 [ref. 38139], Zajonz et al. 2019:102 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:199 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:610 [ref. 37272], Robertson et al. 2020:159 [ref. 38098], Sonoyama et al. 2020:127 [ref. 37637], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:78 [ref. 38844], Kim et al. 2021:230 [ref. 39117], Love et al. 2021:224 [ref. 39279], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:699 [ref. 38945], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:73 [ref. 39585], Fermon et al. 2022:308 [ref. 39448], Hutchins 2022:431 [ref. 40252], Simian et al. 2022:377 [ref. 40776], Carvalho-Filho 2023:279 [ref. 40480], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck 1765). Monacanthidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, South China Sea, Sea of Japan, Gulf of California/Mexico). Habitat: marine.