inermis, Minous Alcock [A. W.] 1889:299, Pl. 22 (fig. 4) [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 58 (pt 2, no. 3); ref. 84] East of the Sacramento Shoal on the Godavari coast, Bay of Bengal [eastern Indian Ocean], Investigator station 46, depth 70 fathoms. Syntypes: ZSI F12444-45 (2). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:154 [ref. 20743]. Figured in Alcock 1898: Pl. 18 (fig. 3) [ref. 20534]. •Valid as Minous inermis Alcock 1889 -- (Eschmeyer et al. 1979:463 [ref. 1277], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:219 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:21 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:107 [ref. 22896], Chen et al. 1997:169 [ref. 26476], Mandrytsa 2001:273 [ref. 25636], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S102 [ref. 27377], Psomadakis et al. 2015:187 [ref. 34104], Matsunuma et al. 2017:[2] 1288 [ref. 35795], Golani & Fricke 2018:57 [ref. 36273], Matsunuma & Motomura 2018:252 [ref. 36053], Psomadakis et al. 2020:365 [ref. 37272], Naranji et al. 2022:[8] 419 [ref. 39305], Poss 2022:573 [ref. 39726]). Current status: Valid as Minous inermis Alcock 1889. Synanceiidae: Choridactylinae. Distribution: Red Sea; northern Indian Ocean: Somalia and Gulf of Oman east to Myanmar and west coast of Thailand. Habitat: marine.