scutatus, Centriscus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:336 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] East India. No types known. •Valid as Centriscus scutatus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Mohr 1937:20 [ref. 15290], Dor 1984:74 [ref. 29757], Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:84 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:44 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:410 [ref. 12442], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:279 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:19 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:105 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:183 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:70 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:351 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:134 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:34 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:68 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:95 [ref. 23965], Fritzsche & Thiesfeld 1999:2282 [ref. 24793], Johnson 1999:726 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:517 [ref. 25086], Fritzche in Randall & Lim 2000:603 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:97 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:98 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:26 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:517 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:27 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S101 [ref. 27377], Paxton et al. 2006:857 [ref. 28994], Fricke 2008:24 [ref. 30182], Kuiter 2009:306 [ref. 30404], Ho & Shao 2011:40 [ref. 31432], Allen & Erdmann 2012:215 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:79 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:49 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:61 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:316 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:128 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:47 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:131 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 13 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:356 [ref. 37272], Hibino in Motomura et al. 2021:15 [ref. 38121], Heemstra 2022:502 [ref. 39724], Vilasri et al. 2023:75 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Centriscus scutatus Linnaeus 1758. Centriscidae: Centriscinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman east to New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.