centriscoides, Halimochirurgus Alcock [A. W.] 1899:78 [Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1899; ref. 93] Gulf of Mannar, west of Sri Lanka, 7°15'N, 77°46'E, Investigator station 257, depth 143 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F781/1. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:162 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:46 [ref. 22148]. Figured in Alcock 1900: Pl. 31 (fig. 3) [ref. 20536]. •Valid as Halimochirurgus centriscoides Alcock 1899 -- (Tyler 1968:218 [ref. 6438], Allen & Swainston 1988:148 [ref. 25477], Allen 1997:236 [ref. 23977], Hutchins 2001:47 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3904 [ref. 26315], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Hoese et al. 2006:1862 [ref. 29067], Shao et al. 2008:265 [ref. 29952], Larson et al. 2013:230 [ref. 32988], Matsuura 2014:4 [ref. 33576], Kawai et al. 2020:104 [ref. 37787], Psomadakis et al. 2020:602 [ref. 37272], Devi et al. 2023:447 [ref. 40401]). Current status: Valid as Halimochirurgus centriscoides Alcock 1899. Triacanthodidae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Andaman Sea off Thailand. Habitat: marine.