Ambassis Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:175 Fem. Centropomus ambassis Lacepède 1802. Type by absolute tautonymy. Spelled Ambassus by Swainson 1839:(18, 168) 200 [ref. 4303]. Ambasis Agassiz 1846:16 [ref. 64] is an unjustified emendation. •Valid as Ambassis Cuvier 1828 -- (Hayashi in Masuda et al. 1984:123 [ref. 6441], Maugé 1986:297 [ref. 6218], Heemstra & Martin 1986:507 [ref. 6298], Martin & Heemstra 1988 [ref. 21758], Paxton et al. 1989:484 [ref. 12442], Kottelat 1989:17 [ref. 13605], Allen & Burgess 1990:148 [ref. 15712], Liang in Pan et al. 1991:361 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:114 [ref. 21090], Allen 1999:2434 [ref. 24812], Anderson & Heemstra 2003:200 [ref. 27368], Allen et al. 2006:970 [ref. 29066] with wrong type species, Shibukawa 2009:78 [ref. 30449], Morgan 2011:14 [ref. 31262], Kottelat 2013:319 [ef. 32989], Motomura et al. 2017:77 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:141 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:60 [ref. 36273], Kuiter 2018:30 [ref. 36369], Fricke et al. 2019:108 [ref. 36673], Ghazali et al. 2023:1 [ref. 40266], Ghazali et al. 2024:[4] 160 [ref. 40992]). Current status: Valid as Ambassis Cuvier 1828. Ambassidae.