stercorarius, Leiognathus Evermann [B. W.] & Seale [A.] 1907:67, Fig. 6 [Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries v. 26 (Doc. 607) (for 1906); ref. 1285] Bulan, Sorsogon, Philippines. Holotype: USNM 55906. Paratypes: ANSP 33289 (1), IU (1); BSMP (1) apparently destroyed; MCZ 32200 [not 32220] (1); CAS-SU 20004 (1), 42171 [ex IU 11595] (1); USNM 55920 (1), 126395 [ex USFC 1490 = USBF 4537] (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:77 [ref. 12291], Böhlke 1984:119 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Leiognathus stercorarius Evermann & Seale 1907 -- (Dunlap & McFall-Ngai 1984:884 [ref. 21845], Myers 1999:143 [ref. 23965], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Woodland et al. 2001:2816 [ref. 26095], Myers & Donaldson 2003:626 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Ikejima et al. 2004:908 [ref. 27755], Sparks & Dunlap 2004:7 [ref. 27928], Randall 2005:240 [ref. 28239]). •Valid as Photoplagios stercorarius (Evermann & Seale 1907) -- (Sparks et al. 2005:315 [ref. 28434], Sparks 2006:1 [ref. 28783], Sparks & Chakrabarty 2007:622 [ref. 29261]). •Valid as Equulites stercorarius (Evermann & Seale 1907) -- (Kimura et al. 2008:204 [ref. 29614], Kimura 2009:129 [ref. 30426], Chakrabarty et al. 2010:18 [ref. 30812], Kottelat 2013:337 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:125 [ref. 34464]). •Valid as Photolateralis stercorarius (Evermann & Seale 1907) -- (Sparks & Chakrabarty 2015:182 [ref. 33740], Suzuki & Kimura 2017:[12] [ref. 35231], Motomura et al. 2017:124 [ref. 35490], Sparks & Chakrabarty 2019:8 [ref. 36798], Psomadakis et al. 2020:441 [ref. 37272], Giat in Motomura et al. 2021:32 [ref. 38121], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:179 [ref. 41223], Vilasri et al. 2023:86 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Photolateralis stercorarius (Evermann & Seale 1907). Leiognathidae: Gazzinae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Myanmar, Andaman Sea, Gulf of Thailand and Indonesia east to Philippines. Habitat: brackish, marine.