cyanopterus, Solenostoma Bleeker [P.] 1854:507 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 6 (no. 3); ref. 344] Wahai, Ceram, Indonesia. Lectotype: BMNH 1867.11.28.362. Paralectotypes: RMNH 7220 (1 or of 7, poor condition), plus one apparently lost. Spelled once cijanopterus on p. 507, cyanopterus elsewhere in work (p. 479, 481). Lectotype established by Orr & Fritzsche 1993:176 [ref. 20312]. •Valid as Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker 1854 -- (Dor 1984:74 [ref. 29757], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:85 [ref. 6441], Fritzsche 1986:459 [ref. 6295], Allen & Swainston 1988:44 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:71 [ref. 15987], Orr & Fritzsche 1993:176 [ref. 20312], Kuiter 1993:82 [ref. 23929], Senou 1994:2 [ref. 24341], Goren & Dor 1994:19 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:70 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:72 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:71 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:86 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:145 [ref. 24106], Fritzsche & Thiesfeld 1999:2263 [ref. 24793], Allen 2000:85 [ref. 37268], Fritzche in Randall & Lim 2000:603 [ref. 25122], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:164 [ref. 27511] dated 1852, Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:153 [ref. 25191], Nakabo 2000:519 [ref. 25086], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:58 [ref. 25480] as cf. cyanopterus, Hutchins 2001:26 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:519 [ref. 26001], Orr et al. 2002:105 [ref. 26186], Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:617 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:103 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:318 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:808 [ref. 28995] dated 1855, Fricke et al. 2009:38 [ref. 30213], Kuiter 2009:296 [ref. 30404], Motomura et al. 2010:85 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:85 [ref. 39915], Fricke et al. 2011:374 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:182 [ref. 31980], Koeda et al. 2016:18 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:120 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:48 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:89 [ref. 36673], Kim et al. 2020:85 [ref. 39118], Moots 2022:429 [ref. 39722], Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935]). Current status: Valid as Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker 1854. Solenostomidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos) and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Mariana Islands and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to eastern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.