Liocranium praepositum Ogilby

Motomura, Hiroyuki, Last, Peter R. & Johnson, Jeffrey W., 2008, Review of the waspfish genus Liocranium (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae), with restoration of L. pleurostigma (Weber), Zootaxa 1820, pp. 27-40 : 33

Liocranium praepositum Ogilby

English name: Blackspot Waspfish ( Figs. 1 C–D, 2, 3B, 4–5; Tables 1–3)

Liocranium praepositum Ogilby, 1903: 25 (type locality: coast of Queensland, Australia); Poss, 1999: 2318 (in part, Exmouth Gulf to Port Curtis, Australia and New Guinea); Kuiter & Debelius, 2006: 214, unnumbered figs. (underwater photographs from Moreton Bay, Queensland).

Abcichthys praepositus: McCulloch, 1929: 390 (listed from Queensland).

Liocranium praepositum praepositum: Mees, 1964a: 47 , pl. 3 (comparison of a syntype, QM I. 1582, of L. praepositum with 7 specimens, WAM P. 5498-5500, P. 5497, P. 5615 and P. 5685, of L. praepositum pleurostigma ); Mees, 1964b: 7 (listed and distribution given as east coast of Queensland).

Cottapistus praepositus (not of Ogilby): Allen & Cross, 1989: 440 (in part, distribution from Exmouth Gulf to Moreton Bay); Allen et al., 1997: 76, fig. 12 on p. 77 (in part, north Australia and Indonesia; figure based on L. pleurostigma ); Johnson, 1999: 727 (listed from Moreton Bay; southernmost record based on QM I. 29765).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Preserved specimens of (A – B) Liocranium pleurostigma and (C – D) L. praepositum. A lectotype of Paracentropogon pleurostigma, ZMA 110229, 33.5 mm SL; B non-type of L. pleurostigma, CSIRO H 4059 - 03, 82.8 mm SL; C lectotype of L. praepositum, QM I. 1582, 61.7 mm SL; and D non-type of L. praepositum, QM I. 31337, 93.2 mm SL.