illustris, Eumegistus Jordan [D. S.] & Jordan [E. K.] 1922:36, Pl. 2 (fig. 1) [Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 10 (no. 1); ref. 2487] Honolulu market, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): FMNH 59325 [ex CM 3899]. Type catalog: Henn 1928:89 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:35 [ref. 12367]. •Valid as Eumegistus illustris Jordan & Jordan 1922 -- (Mead 1972:13 [ref. 6976], Akazaki in Okamura et al. 1982:233, 380 [ref. 8256], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:160 [ref. 6441], Nakabo 2000:814 [ref. 25086], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:492 [ref. 25191], Shinohara et al. 2001:324 [ref. 25995], Last & Moteki 2001:2834 [ref. 26096], Nakabo 2002:814 [ref. 26001], Myers & Donaldson 2003:626 [ref. 27495] with wrong authorship, Moteki 2005:202 [ref. 28308], Shinohara et al. 2005:433 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:376 [ref. 28379], Bray et al. 2006:1185 [ref. 29088], Randall 2007:242 [ref. 30952], Carvalho-Filho et al. 2009:5 [ref. 30553], Fricke et al. 2009:59 [ref. 30213], Koeda et al. 2016:39 [ref. 35333], Cabebe et al. 2019:25 [ref. 37817], Koeda et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38857], Aju et al. 2023:2 [ref. 40321]). Current status: Valid as Eumegistus illustris Jordan & Jordan 1922. Bramidae. Distribution: Central Indian Ocean, western and central Pacific: East Africa and Réunion (Mascarenes) east to Hawaiian Islands, Society Islands and Marquesas Islands, north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.