myriaster, Rhombus Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1846:181, Pl. 92 (fig. 2) [Fauna Japonica Parts 10-14; ref. 4374] Nagasaki, Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH 3523. Type catalog: Boeseman 1947:149 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Bothus myriaster (Temminck & Schlegel 1846) -- (Amaoka 1969:162 [ref. 105], Kailola 1971:116 [ref. 39475], Amaoka in Masuda et al. 1984:349 [ref. 6441], Hensley 1986:856 [ref. 5669], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:45 [ref. 21500], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Kim & Youn 1994:109 [ref. 22286], Goren & Dor 1994:71 [ref. 25356], Li & Wang 1995:208 [ref. 16193], Evseenko 1996:727 [ref. 24666], Evseenko 1998:59 [ref. 23643], Amaoka in Randall & Lim 2000:645 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1365 [ref. 25182], Hensley & Amaoka 2001:3818 [ref. 26311], Nakabo 2002:1365 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:429, 680 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S122 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:45 [ref. 27712], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Hoese & Bray 2006:1816 [ref. 29000], Ho et al. 2009:10 [ref. 31461], Ohashi & Motomura 2011:88 [ref. 32413], Psomadakis et al. 2015:324 [ref. 34104], Voronina et al. 2016:385 [ref. 35064], Fricke et al. 2018:369 [ref. 35805], Amaoka in Koeda & Ho 2019:1220 [ref. 42393], Amaoka & Ho 2019:170 [ref. 37188], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 11 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:588 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:281 [ref. 41223], Hensley & Amaoka 2022:328 [ref. 40220], Tashiro 2022:83 [ref. 39012], Ummath et al. 2024:[6] [ref. 41632], Moazzam & Osmany 2025:557 [ref. 42495], Yoshida et al. 2025:36 [ref. 42063]). Current status: Valid as Bothus myriaster (Temminck & Schlegel 1846). Bothidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Rodrigues) east to Taiwan, Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Korea and southern Japan, south to Lord Howe Island (Australia). IUCN (2020): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.