maculatus, Anthias Bloch [M. E.] 1793:9, Pl. 326 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 7; ref. 4868] East Indies. Lectotype: ZMB 8703 (right skin). Paralectotypes: ZMB 8702 (1, dry, lost), 8712 (1, dry, lost). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:84 [ref. 24282]. On p. 7 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 10 [ref. 21381]. Lectotype selected by Paepke 1999:84 [ref. 24282]. Original spelling is maculatus, checked 7/02. Both Anthias and Pomadasys are masculine. •Valid as Pomadasys maculatum (Bloch 1793) -- (Smith & McKay 1986:570 [ref. 5716], Allen & Swainston 1988:82 [ref. 25477], Allen 1997:128 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:179 [ref. 23922], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:248 [ref. 24754], Johnson 1999:737 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:842 [ref. 25086], Johnson in Randall & Lim 2000:619 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:132 [ref. 25480], Larson et al. 2013:139 [ref. 32988], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:424 [ref. 33460], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2015:55 [ref. 34319]). •Valid as Pomadasys maculatus (Bloch 1793) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:101 [ref. 19754], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:173 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:151 [ref. 29757], Roux 1986:329 [ref. 6209], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:244 [ref. 26639] dated 1797, Ye in Pan et al. 1991:406 [ref. 23876], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:227 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:41 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:213 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:358 [ref. 27969], Chen et al. 1997:102 [ref. 26476] dated 1797, Iwatsuki et al. 1998:199 [ref. 23384], Mishra et al. 1999:87 [ref. 25315], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:239 [ref. 27511] dating to 1797, Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], McKay 2001:2988 [ref. 26103], Nakabo 2002:842 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:36 [ref. 27712], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:192 [ref. 28072], Allen et al. 2006:1224 [ref. 29090], Motomura in Motomura et al. 2009:155 [ref. 31130], Yoshida et al. 2013:142 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:424 [ref. 33460], Psomadakis et al. 2015:2548 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:144 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:327 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:210 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:98 [ref. 36273], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:165 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:70 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2019:169 [ref. 37021], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:472 [ref. 37272], Damadi et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38698], Habib et al. 2021:305 [ref. 38630], Heemstra 2022:280 [ref. 39773]). Current status: Valid as Pomadasys maculatus (Bloch 1793). Haemulidae: Haemulinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to Shark Bay (Western Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.