boops, Labrus Houttuyn [M.] 1782:326 [Verhandelingen der Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem v. 20 (pt 2); ref. 2220] Japan. No types known. Species originally spelled boöps. See Boeseman 1995:6 [ref. 21811]. •Valid as Scombrops boops (Houttuyn 1782) -- (Mochizuki in Okamura et al. 1982:229, 377 [ref. 8256], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:152 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura et al. 1985:485, 676 [ref. 8056], Heemstra 1986:563 [ref. 5660], Shinohara et al. 1996:179 [ref. 26605], Heemstra 1999:2651 [ref. 24791], Nakabo 2000:786 [ref. 25086], Heemstra in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:324 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:786 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:324, 601 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:432 [ref. 28370], Shinohara et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31715], Shinohara et al. 2014:261 [ref. 33330], Kim et al. 2020:121 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:61 [ref. 37637], Koeda et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38857], Heemstra 2022:165 [ref. 39747]). Current status: Valid as Scombrops boops (Houttuyn 1782). Scombropidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to southern Mozambique; South China Sea, East China Sea, Korea and Japan. Habitat: marine.