cypselurus, Rhabdamia Weber [M.] 1909:167 [Notes from the Leyden Museum v. 31 (note 4); ref. 4600] Kawa, western Ceram [Seram, Maluku Province, Indonesia, Selat Boano/Strait of Boano, Seram Sea] [ca. 3°01'S, 128°04'E]. Syntypes: RMNH 10027 (1), ZMA 11206 (13, apparently lost). Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:89 [ref. 19236]. Species epithet is a noun in apposition, so correct spelling is cypselurus. •Valid as Rhabdamia cypselura [often as cypselurus] Weber 1909 -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:150 [ref. 6441], Allen 1987:6 [ref. 13387] as cyselurus, Allen & Swainston 1988:68 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:556 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:33 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1994:227 [ref. 21645], Allen 1993:16 [ref. 20779], Randall 1994:264 [ref. 21644], Randall 1995:165 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:104 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:152 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:150 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:511 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:132 [ref. 23965], Allen 1999:2607 [ref. 24812], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Gon & Randall 2003:38 [ref. 26750], Randall et al. 2004:14 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:213 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1107 [ref. 29004]). •Valid as Rhabdamia cypselurus Weber 1909 -- (Mohsin & Ambak 1996:260 [ref. 27969], Nakabo 2000:757 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:614 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2002:757 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:37 [ref. 26830], Allen & Erdmann 2012:411 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:78 [ref. 33932], Mabuchi et al. 2014:201 [ref. 33426]). •Valid as Verulux cypselurus (Weber 1909) -- (Mabuchi et al. 2014:203 [ref. 33426], Mabuchi et al. 2015:46 [ref. 34429], Yoshida & Motomura 2016:[4] [ref. 34562], Fraser & Prokofiev 2016:229 [ref. 34742], Motomura et al. 2017:101 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:175 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:79 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:39 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:140 [ref. 36673], Kuiter & Kozawa 2019:140 [ref. 36965], Zajonz et al. 2019:74 [ref. 36871], Fraser et al. 2022:220 [ref. 39752]). Current status: Valid as Verulux cypselurus (Weber 1909). Apogonidae: Apogoninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Marshall Islands, Fiji and Tonga, north to Japan, south to Western Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.
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