Prismatopus aculeatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

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Prismatopus aculeatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Chlorinoides aculeatus — Blackmore and Rainbow 2000: app. 1.

Taxonomy: Sakai (1938: as Acanthophrys ), Griffin and Tranter (1986: as Thacanophrys ); Ng et al. (2001).

Type: Status unknown, probably in MNHN ( Davie 2002).

Type locality: “mers d’Asie”: seas of Asia.

Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean to West Pacific: from Sri Lanka, Mergui Archipelago, to Singapore, Thailand, South China and Taiwan, and Torres Strait and Australia ( Sakai 1976; Yang et al. 2008).

Habitat: Subtidal; substrates rocky and weedy ( Dai and Yang 1991); body often decorated with corals and sponges ( Davie 2002).

Schizophrys aspera (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) #

Schizophrys aspera — Shen 1940a: 219; Horikoshi and Takeda 1982: tab. 1; Dudgeon 1982: tab. 1; Morton and Morton 1983: 274.

Taxonomy: Griffin and Tranter (1986), BY Lee et al. (2018).

Type: Lectotype ñ MNHN-B463 (designated by BY Lee et al. 2018).

Type locality: Unknown.

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to West Pacific: from South Africa, Red Sea, to South China, Taiwan Japan, towards Fiji and Australia ( Griffin and Tranter 1986; Ng et al. 2001; Yang et al. 2008); probably introduced to New Zealand ( Ahyong and Wilkens 2011) and Hawaii ( Carlton and Eldredge 2009; Castro 2011).

Habitat: Subtidal to subtidal; rocky bottoms near to the shore, and sandy bottoms of coral reefs ( Dai and Yang 1991).

Remarks: B.Y. Lee et al. (2018) discussed the many taxonomic and nomenclatural problems with this species.