verrucosa, Synanceia Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:195, Pl. 45 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] India. Holotype (unique): ZMB 821. Type catalog: Paepke & Fricke 1992:276 [ref. 19946], Paepke 1999:145 [ref. 24282]. Genus as Synanceja on p. 195, but as Synanceia in index (p. xxxvii), and corrected in Corrigenda (p. 573). •Valid as Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Eschmeyer & Rama-Rao 1973:357 [ref. 6391], Dor 1984:88 [ref. 29757], Shimizu in Masuda et al. 1984:318 [ref. 6441], Eschmeyer 1986:478 [ref. 5652], Paxton et al. 1989:452 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:21 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:85 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:22 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:113 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:74 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:138 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:92 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:85 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:101 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:166 [ref. 24106], Poss 1999:2349 [ref. 24796], Allen 2000:86 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:598 [ref. 25086], Poss in Randall & Lim 2000:606 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:170 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:97 [ref. 25868] as Synanceja, Mandrytsa 2001:274 [ref. 25636], Motomura et al. 2001:6 [ref. 25229], Nakabo 2002:598 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:30 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S102 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:619 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:11 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:119 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3318 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:146 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:128 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:906 [ref. 29078], Fricke et al. 2009:41 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:93 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:104 [ref. 39915], Fricke et al. 2011:380 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:244 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:55 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:23 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:3 [ref. 35354], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:138 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:57 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:30 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:129 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:104 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:69 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:144 [ref. 37515], Kwik & Lim 2020:22 [ref. 38869], Sonoyama et al. 2020:47 [ref. 37637], Akaike et al. 2021:21 [ref. 38809], Golani 2021:37 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:82 [ref. 39014], Matsunuma et al. 2021:[6] [ref. 38413], Poss 2022:577 [ref. 39726]). Current status: Valid as Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider 1801. Synanceiidae: Synanceiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, Tuamotu Islands and Gambier Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Sea of Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), Middleton Reef (Australia), New Caledonia, Tonga and Austral Islands (rench Polynesia); eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.