Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1829
Synonyms:
Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1829, Giorn. Sci. Lett. Arti Sicilia, 42: 21 (Messina).
Tetragonurus simplex Lowe, 1833, Proc. zool. Soc. London, 1:143 (Madeira).
Rovetus Temminckii Cantraine, 1833, Giorn. Sci. Lett. Arti Pisa (Malta) (fide Cantraine, 1837).
Rovetus temminckii: Cantraine, 1837: 6 19, pl. III.
Thyrsites acanthoderma Lowe, 1839, Proc. zool. Soc. London, 7: 78 (Madeira).
Thyrsites scholarias Poey, 1854, Mem. Hist. nat. Cuba, 1(32): 374, fig. 1 (Cuba).
Thyrsites pretiosus: Günther, 1860: 351.
Ruvettus pretiosus: Goode and Bean, 1896: 196-197, fig. 210 | Waite, 1903: 3 | Jordan and Evermann, 1905: 177-178, fig. 67 | Fowler, 1928: 135, pl. 10A | Le Gall, 1932, in Joubin, ed. 1929-1938, pl. 275 | Fowler, 1936: 632-633, fig. 285 | Herre, 1953: 253-254 | Grey, 1953: 138 | Matsubara and Iwai, 1958: 23-54, fig. 1-5, 7-11, 13 | Smith, 1961: 309, fig. 861 | Leim and Scott, 1966: 276-277, fig.
Ruvettus Tydemani Weber, 1913, Siboga Rep., 57: 401 408, pl. 8 (fig. 4) (Binongka Isl., 250 m).
Ruvettus pacificus Jordan and Jordan, 1922, Mem. Carnegie Mus., 10 (1): 34 (Hawaii).
Common names:
escolar clavo [Spain]
escolar [UK and USA]
oilfish [UK and USA]
plain-tail [UK and USA]
rouvet [France and Belgium]
ruvetto [Italy]
scour-fish [UK and USA]