Liocranium pleurostigma (Weber)

New English name: Western Blackspot Waspfish (Figs. 1 A–B, 2, 3A, 4–5; Tables 1–3)

Paracentropogon pleurostigma Weber, 1913: 499, fig. 102 (type locality: near New Guinea, 1°42.5’S, 130°47.5’E).

Abcichthys praepositus (not of Ogilby): Whitley, 1948: 29 (listed from Western Australia).

Sibogapistus pleurostigma: de Beaufort & Briggs, 1962: 87, fig. 23 (specimens from Indonesia between Salawati and Misol Islands at depth of 32 m); Munro, 1967: 530 (listed in key; record from West New Guinea).

Liocranium praepositum pleurostigma: Mees, 1964a: 47, pl. 3 (description based on 7 specimens from Western Australia, WAM P. 5498-5500, P. 5497, P. 5615 and P. 5685; comparison with a syntype, QM I. 1582, of L. praepositum Ogilby); Mees, 1964b: 7 (listed and distribution given as New Guinea between Misol and Salawatti and north coast of Australia as far west as Exmouth Gulf).

Liocranium praepositum (not of Ogilby): Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola, 1984: 109, 318, unnumbered fig. (figure based on CSIRO CA 1730); Sainsbury et al., 1985: 94, unnumbered fig. (figure and description based on CSIRO CA 1730); Larson & Williams, 1997: 352 (recorded from Fannie Bay); Poss 1999: 2318 (in part, Exmouth Gulf to Port Curtis, Australia and New Guinea).

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); Hutchins, 2001: 27 (listed from Western Australia); Hutchins, 2003: 465 (listed from Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia).