taeniopterus, Scolopsides Cuvier [G.] (ex Kuhl & van Hasselt) in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:345 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH D333. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1983:15 [ref. 11366]. •Valid as Scolopsis taeniopterus (Cuvier 1830) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:94 [ref. 19754], Allen & Swainston 1988:88 [ref. 25477], Russell 1990:118 [ref. 19228], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:324 [ref. 27969] with author as Valenciennes, Allen 1997:138 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:100 [ref. 26476], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Russell 2001:3077 [ref. 26106], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Béarez 2003:61 [ref. 27027]). •Valid as Scolopsis taenioptera (Cuvier 1830) -- (Chen 1997:350 [ref. 23444], Kuiter 1997:172 [ref. 25488], Allen & Adrim 2003:41 [ref. 26830] with author as Valenciennes, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:105 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1249 [ref. 29090], Shibukawa in Shibukawa & Motomura 2009:160 [ref. 31131], Allen & Erdmann 2012:488 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:146 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:147 [ref. 34464], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2015:58 [ref. 34319], Motomura et al. 2017:152 [ref. 35490], Nakamura et al. 2018:226 [ref. 36223], Shibukawa in Kimura et al. 2018:179 [ref. 36460], Nakamura et al. 2019:126 [ref. 36815], Psomadakis et al. 2020:486 [ref. 37272], Muto in Motomura et al. 2021:36 [ref. 38121], Bangchongmanee et al. 2023:88 [ref. 40682], Vilasri et al. 2023:90 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Scolopsis taenioptera (Cuvier 1830). Nemipteridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Myanmar, Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Papua New Guinea, north to northern Vietnam and Taiwan. Habitat: marine.