oxyrhynchus, Therapon Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1843:16, Pl. 6 (fig. 3) [Fauna Japonica Part 1; ref. 4370] Bays of southern Japan. Lectotype: RMNH D95 (stuffed). Paralectotypes: ?RMNH D93 and D94 (2), RMNH D96-98 (3, stuffed), 344 (1), 2872 (1); ZMB 818 (1, missing). Type catalog: Paepke 2001:331 [ref. 25566]. Lectotype selected by Boeseman 1947:34 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Therapon oxyrhynchus Temminck & Schlegel 1843 -- (Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:247 [ref. 26639], Zheng 1989:328 [ref. 21202], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:410 [ref. 23876]). •Valid as Terapon oxyrhynchus Temminck & Schlegel 1843 -- (Okada 1961:643 [ref. 6363], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:527 [ref. 25598]). •Valid as Rhynchopelates oxyrhynchus (Temminck & Schlegel 1843) -- (Vari 1978:267 [ref. 4514], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:173 [ref. 6441] as Rhyncopelates, Takahashi et al. 1997:45 [ref. 24971], Sato et al. 1998:39 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:8 [ref. 25311], Vari in Randall & Lim 2000:612 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:952 [ref. 25182] as Rhyncopelates, Sadovy & Cornish 2000:182 [ref. 25480], Shimizu 2001:28 [ref. 25799] as Rhyncopelates, Vari 2001:3313 [ref. 26126] as Rhyncopelates, Nakabo 2002:952 [ref. 26193] as Rhyncopelates, Choi et al. 2003:358, 627 [ref. 26218] as Rhyncopelates, Matsunuma et al. 2010:83 [ref. 31558], Hata et al. 2012:28 [ref. 32412], Kottelat 2013:371 [ref. 32989], Knudsen & Clements 2016:259 [ref. 34458] as Rhyncopelates, Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:109 [ref. 36460], Yoshigou 2019:134 [ref. 36562], Kim et al. 2020:143 [ref. 39118] as Rhyncopelates oxyrhynchus, Sonoyama et al. 2020:82 [ref. 37637]). Current status: Valid as Rhynchopelates oxyrhynchus (Temminck & Schlegel 1843). Terapontidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: northern Vietnam and southern China to Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.