Otolithes Oken [L.] (ex Cuvier) 1817:1182 Masc. Johnius ruber Bloch & Schneider 1801. Type by subsequent designation. Earliest technical addition of species not researched. Type designated by Gill 1861:80 [ref. 1771]. Based on "Les Otolithes" of Cuvier 1816:299 [ref. 993] (see Gill 1903:966 [ref. 5768]). Written Otolithus by Cuvier 1829:172 [ref. 995] and authors. •Valid as Otolithes Oken 1817 -- (Trewavas 1977:347 [ref. 4459], Jayaram 1981:329 [ref. 6497], Daget & Trewavas 1986:334 [ref. 6211], Heemstra 1986:619 [ref. 5660], Kottelat 1989:17 [ref. 13605], Ataur Rahman 1989:329 [ref. 24860], Talwar 1995:57 [ref. 25194], Sasaki 2001:3121 [ref. 26108], Bray et al. 2006:1262 [ref. 29091], Coad 2010:266 [ref. 36620], Lo et al. 2017:13 [ref. 35288], Motomura et al. 2017:160 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:224 [ref. 35805], Lin et al. 2019:1 [ref. 36846], Parenti 2020:35 [ref. 37439]). Current status: Valid as Otolithes Oken 1817. Sciaenidae.