cyanophrys, Psenes Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833:260, Pl. 265 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 9; ref. 1002] New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-6852. Type catalog: Le Danois 1963:229 [ref. 21543]. •Valid as Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes 1833 -- (Haedrich 1967:84 [ref. 5357], Shimizu in Uyeno et al. 1983:423 [ref. 14275], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:234 [ref. 6441], Haedrich 1986:849 [ref. 5659], Robins & Ray 1986:270 [ref. 23100], Haedrich 1990:1017 [ref. 19509], Boschung 1992:172 [ref. 23239], Allen & Robertson 1994:284 [ref. 22193], Haedrich in Fischer et al. 1995:1325 [ref. 22829], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:533 [ref. 27969] in Psennes with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Chen et al. 1997:162 [ref. 26476], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:605 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:291 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:567 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:340 [ref. 25013], Last in Randall & Lim 2000:644 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:964 [ref. 25182], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Myoung et al. 2001:197 [ref. 25731], Hutchins 2001:46 [ref. 25847], Last 2001:3779 [ref. 26309], Shinohara et al. 2001:333 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:964 [ref. 26193], Moore et al. 2003:231 [ref. 27076], Haedrich 2003:1872 [ref. 27117], Myers & Donaldson 2003:649 [ref. 27495] with author as Cuvier, Figueiredo et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:104 [ref. 27192], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:213 [ref. 27510], Nelson et al. 2004:177 [ref. 27807], Parin & Piotrovsky 2004:S53 [ref. 28443] with author as Cuvier, Mundy 2005:512 [ref. 28379], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:808 [ref. 28815], Hoese & Bray 2006:1796 [ref. 29000], Randall 2007:454 [ref. 30952], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1042 [ref. 31980], Page et al. 2013:183 [ref. 32708], Shinohara et al. 2014:273 [ref. 33330], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2923 [ref. 34618], Koeda et al. 2016:107 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:179 [ref. 35490], Robertson et al. 2017:100 [ref. 35676], Fricke et al. 2018:366 [ref. 35805], Cabebe & Motomura 2019:121 [ref. 37815], Carneiro et al. 2019:173 [ref. 37250], Fricke et al. 2019:314 [ref. 36673], Guabiroba et al. 2020:703 [ref. 37571], Kawai et al. 2020:55 [ref. 37785], Kim et al. 2020:187 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:579 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:85 [ref. 37637], Sutton et al. 2020:266 [ref. 37832], Durville et al. 2021:315 [ref. 38802], Anderson 2022:305 [ref. 40173], Eduardo et al. 2022:10 [ref. 39574], Fermon et al. 2022:210 [ref. 39448], Carvalho-Filho 2023:263 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes 1833. Nomeidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including southern Sea of Japan). Habitat: marine.