commerson, Lophius Anonymous (ex Lacepède, Commerson) 1798:681 [Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 1798 (pt. 3) (no. 288) (for 25 Sept. 1798); ref. 24107] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): not preserved. Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:141 [ref. 6339], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:117 [ref. 38284]. First Latinization of the 'Lophie commerson' of Lacepède. Usually dated to Latreille 1804. Neotype designated by Dor 1984:56 [ref. 29757] as MNHN A-4623 from Mauritius, but that designation invalid (not a revisional work). •Valid as Antennarius commersoni (Latreille 1804) -- (Pietsch 1984:34 [ref. 5380], Pietsch 1986:367 [ref. 5704], Pietsch & Grobecker 1987:92 [ref. 20669], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Schneider & Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995:857 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:83 [ref. 22896], Lindberg et al. 1997:216 [ref. 23547], Larson & Williams 1997:349 [ref. 23967], Randall et al. 1997:497 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:68 [ref. 23965] as commersonii, Pietsch 1999:2015 [ref. 24766], Nakabo 2000:456 [ref. 25086], Pietsch in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:130 [ref. 25191] as commerson, Sadovy & Cornish 2000:44 [ref. 25480], Nakabo 2002:456 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S99 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:614 [ref. 27495] as commersonii, Randall 2005:70 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:263 [ref. 28379], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:200 [ref. 28944], Allen et al. 2006:639 [ref. 29066], Caratini & Soriano 2011:81 [ref. 39915], Larson et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32988]). •Valid as Antennarius commerson (Latreille 1804) -- (Randall 2007:127 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Motomura 2009:41 [ref. 30446], Pietsch & Arnold 2020:114 [ref. 38284]). •Valid as Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798) -- (Fricke 1999:104 [ref. 24106] with authorship as Commerson & Lacepède in Anonymous, Fricke et al. 2009:28 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:78 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:367 [ref. 31242] with authorship as Anonymous ex Commerson ex Lacepède, Arnold & Pietsch 2012:128 [ref. 31574] with author as Latreille 1804, Allen & Erdmann 2012:145 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:97 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2013:252 [ref. 32706], Fourriére et al. 2016:442 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Fricke et al. 2018:87 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:37 [ref. 36273], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:6 [ref. 36248], Arndt & Fricke 2019:10 [ref. 36883], Love et al. 2021:86 [ref. 39279] with question, Arnold & Pietsch 2022:289 [ref. 39710] with author as Lacepède, Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:96 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935], Page et al. 2023:163 [ref. 40505], Allen & Erdmann 2024:162 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:64 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Antennarius commerson (Anonymous 1798). Antennariidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands, and Society Islands (French Polynesia), south to Houtman Abrolhos (Western Australia), New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island (Australia): eastern Pacific: Jalisco (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Ravillagigedo Archipelago (Mexico), Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Malpelo Island (Colombia) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2022): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.
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