meleagris, Ostracion Shaw [G.] in Shaw & Nodder 1796:no page number, Pl. 253 [The Naturalist's Miscellany; ref. 4013] Southern Ocean [South Pacific]. Syntypes: BMNH 2020.10.2.2-4 (3). •Valid as Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796, subspecies meleagris Shaw 1796 -- (Nakabo 2000:1415 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:1415 [ref. 26193], Itoh et al. 2002:144 [ref. 26531], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:32 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3332 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:449 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:641 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1907 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:486 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:120 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:333 [ref. 31171]). •Valid as Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796 -- (Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:362 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:892 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:154 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:69 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:469 [ref. 15987], Francis & Randall 1993:125 [ref. 20996], Kuiter 1993:415 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:168 [ref. 25479], Mishra 1994:187 [ref. 24012], Allen & Robertson 1994:299 [ref. 22193], Allen 1997:244 [ref. 23977], Allen & Robertson 1997:835 [ref. 41086], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:641 [ref. 24023], Kuiter 1997:408 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:469 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:287 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:599 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:754 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:30 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:465 [ref. 25191], Thomson et al. 2000:272 [ref. 25640], Randall & Earle 2000:22 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3949 [ref. 26317] with authors as Shaw & Nedder [sic], Allen & Adrim 2003:65 [ref. 26830], Lobel & Lobel 2004:78 [ref. 27576], Béarez et al. 2004:131 [ref. 27826], Nelson et al. 2004:184 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:180 [ref. 37547], Béarez & Séret 2009:152 [ref. 36646], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:237 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:80 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1083 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2013:272 [ref. 32706], Matsuura 2014:17 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988] with authorship as Bloch & Schneider 1801, Galván-Villa et al. 2016:150 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:451 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:612 [ref. 34923], Koeda et al. 2016:113 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:18 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2018:383 [ref. 35805], Reyes-Bonilla et al. 2018:4 [ref. 36357], Fricke et al. 2019:330 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:615 [ref. 37272], Love et al. 2021:224 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Heemstra 2022:450 [ref. 40260], Page et al. 2023:169 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40981], Fricke et al. 2024:687 [ref. 41622], Luo et al. 2024:10 [ref. 41630], Noushad K. et al. 2024:46 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796. Ostraciidae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrgues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Great Barrier Reef (Australia), New Caledonia and Rapa (French Polynesia); eastern Pacific: southern tip of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Panama, including Clipperton island (France) and Galapagos Islands (Mexico). Habitat: marine.
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