megalolepis, Secutor Mochizuki [K.] & Hayashi [M.] 1989:86, Figs. 8A-B [Science Report of the Yokosuka City Museum No. 37; ref. 20157] Thailand. Holotype: URM 14964-2. Paratypes: FUMT-P 8733 (4), 21652 (1); URM 12018 (1), 14660 (1), 14964-1 (1); YCM-HLP 179 (3), 214-2 (1), 217 (5). Type catalog: Shibata et al. 2011:15 [ref. 31469]. •Valid as Secutor megalolepis Mochizuki & Hayashi 1989 -- (Kottelat et al. 1993:112 [ref. 23448], Yamashita et al. 2000:49 [ref. 24517], Nakabo 2000:810 [ref. 25086], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:100 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:33 [ref. 25847], Woodland et al. 2001:2821 [ref. 26095], Nakabo 2002:810 [ref. 26001], Ikejima et al. 2004:908 [ref. 27755], Sparks & Dunlap 2004:7 [ref. 27928], Hoese & Bray 2006:1182 [ref. 29000], Kimura 2009:134 [ref. 30426], Shibata et al. 2011:15 [ref. 31469], Baldwin & Sparks 2011:39 [ref. 31487], Larson et al. 2013:129 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:129 [ref. 34464], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:49 [ref. 34319]). •Valid as Deveximentum megalolepis (Mochizuki & Hayashi 1989) -- (Kottelat 2013:337 [ref. 32989], Motomura et al. 2017:122 [ref. 35490], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:144 [ref. 36460], Psomadakis et al. 2020:437 [ref. 37272], Alavi-Yeganeh et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38052], Sharifuzzaman et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38872], Vilasri et al. 2023:84 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Deveximentum megalolepis (Mochizuki & Hayashi 1989). Leiognathidae: Gazzinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to China, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.