bispinatus, Scymnus Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1824:197, Pl. 44 (figs. 1-2) [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 3574] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-1216. Non-types: (1) provisionally included. Type catalog: Bertin 1939:76 [ref. 20739]. •Valid as Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:22 [ref. 9277], Compagno 1984:90 [ref. 6474], Bass et al. 1986:58 [ref. 5636], Castro-Aguirre & Garcia-Dominguez 1988:105 [ref. 19199], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:225 [ref. 36138] as Euprotomieras bispinatus, Paulin et al. 1989:15 [ref. 24556], Paxton et al. 1989:35 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:12 [ref. 14125], Springer 1990:18 [ref. 19315], Last & Stevens 1994:85 [ref. 23873], Compagno & Niem 1998:1228 [ref. 23787], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:61 [ref. 24555], Suda et al. 1999:140 [ref. 23991], Fricke 1999:25 [ref. 24106], Compagno 1999:474 [ref. 25589], Hutchins 2001:15 [ref. 25847], Soto 2001:98 [ref. 26637], Espinosa Pérez et al. 2004:98 [ref. 27705] dated to 1830, Nelson et al. 2004:50 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:3 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:101 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Gates 2006:146 [ref. 28997], White 2008:95 [ref. 30617], Fricke et al. 2009:10 [ref. 30213], Castro 2011:153 [ref. 31457], Page et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2014:2 [ref. 33516], Stewart & Last 2015:164 [ref. 34225], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:65 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:56 [ref. 34211], Compagno 2016:1211 [ref. 34544], Ebert et al. 2017:51 [ref. 35618], Ehemann et al. 2018:23 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:20 [ref. 35805], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:113 [ref. 37302], Sutton et al. 2020:15 [ref. 37832], Ebert et al. 2021:35 [ref. 38234], Love et al. 2021:22 [ref. 39279], Fermon et al. 2022:97 [ref. 39448], James & Ebert 2022:444 [ref. 39663], Page et al. 2023:41 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824). Dalatiidae. Distribution: Circumglobal, mostly in temperate seas, rarely in tropical seas. Habitat: marine.