Lobotes Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:177 Fem. Holocentrus surinamensis Bloch 1790. Type by monotypy. Appeared first as "Les Lobotes" in Cuvier 1829:177 [ref. 995]; Kottelat says this is Latinized. Also appeared in Cuvier 1830:319 [ref. 999]. •Valid as Lobotes Cuvier 1829 -- (Tortonese 1973:389 [ref. 7192], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:161 [ref. 6441], Roux in Whitehead et al. 1986:854 [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1986:622 [ref. 5660], Ataur Rahman 1989:324 [ref. 24860], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:306 [ref. 24550], Carpenter 2003:1505 [ref. 27092], Parin 2003:S10 [ref. 28536], Ataur Rahman 2003:350 [ref. 31338], Hilton & Bemis 2005:665 [ref. 28319], Allen et al. 2006:1211 [ref. 29090], Kottelat 2013:344 [ref. 32989], Parin et al. 2014:366 [ref. 33547], Motomura et al. 2017:139 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:203 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:89 [ref. 36273], Gill & Leis 2019:22 [ref. 36999]). Current status: Valid as Lobotes Cuvier 1829. Lobotidae.