gracilis, Saurus Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1824:224 [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 3574] Hawaiian Islands; Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: MNHN A-7617 (1, "holotype"), B-1027 (1), B-1029 (1), B-2919 [ex MNHN B-1029] (3). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:7 [ref. 19576] with holotype. •Valid as Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) -- (Shindo & Yamada 1972:4 [ref. 571], Waples 1982:226 [ref. 8397], Dor 1984:46 [ref. 29757], Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:61 [ref. 6441], Cressey 1986:271 [ref. 6289], Allen & Swainston 1988:36 [ref. 25477], Budnichenko 1989:241 [ref. 13371], Paxton et al. 1989:243 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:13 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:49 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Francis & Randall 1993:119 [ref. 20996], Goren & Dor 1994:12 [ref. 25356], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:270 [ref. 21953], Randall 1995:77 [ref. 22896], Suzuki et al. 1995:2 [ref. 24356], Kuiter 1997:38 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:49 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:64 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:91 [ref. 24106], Russell 1999:1938 [ref. 24747], Mishra et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25315], Johnson 1999:723 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:7 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:85 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:352 [ref. 25086], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:592 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:126 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:38 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:8 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:95 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:97 [ref. 26368], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:145 [ref. 27511], Sakai et al. 2001:89 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:20 [ref. 25847], Chen 2002:71 [ref. 26587], Nakabo 2002:352 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:25 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S98 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:613 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:19 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:115 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:62 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:199 [ref. 28379], Hoese et al. 2006:474 [ref. 29051], Randall 2007:108 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:24 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:76 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:358 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:123 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:26 [ref. 33932], Russell 2015:445 [ref. 33739], Russell et al. 2015:565 [ref. 33799], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:11 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:49 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:68 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:34 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:30 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:63 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:64 [ref. 36871], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:27 [ref. 37828], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 8 [ref. 38321], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:77 [ref. 41223], Khamassi et al. 2022:26 [ref. 39025], Russell 2022:212 [ref. 39701], Sato et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40949], Allen & Erdmann 2024:134 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:87 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824). Synodontidae: Harpadontinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, Quensland (Australia) and New Caledonia; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea migrant). Habitat: marine.
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