coruscans, Etelis Valenciennes [A.] 1862:1166 [2] [Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences v. 54; ref. 4506] Réunion, western Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-6991 (dry). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:12 [ref. 21549]. On p. 2 of separate. •Valid as Etelis coruscans Valenciennes 1862 -- (Anderson 1981:821 [ref. 5433], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:167 [ref. 6441], Allen 1985:27 [ref. 6843], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:501, 684 [ref. 8056], Anderson 1986:573 [ref. 5634], Anderson 1987:7 [ref. 13770], Kramer et al. 1994:73 [ref. 21258], Leis & Lee 1994:84 [ref. 21402], Randall et al. 1997:513 [ref. 25919], Fricke 1999:265 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:828 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:487 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Shinohara et al. 2001:325 [ref. 25995], Anderson & Allen 2001:2858 [ref. 26099], Nakabo 2002:828 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:626 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:196 [ref. 28072], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:205 [ref. 28072], Shinohara et al. 2005:434 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:381 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1196 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:249 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:60 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:117 [ref. 31256], Larson et al. 2013:129 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:84 [ref. 33932], Shinohara et al. 2014:262 [ref. 33330], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:114 [ref. 36167], Motomura et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34709], Psomadakis et al. 2015:240 [ref. 34104], Roberts 2015:1281 [ref. 34193], Koeda et al. 2016:39 [ref. 35333], Ali et al. 2018:325 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:194 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:151 [ref. 36673], Bogorodsky et al. 2020:523 [ref. 38001], Psomadakis et al. 2020:445 [ref. 37272], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:230 [ref. 39746], Zajonz et al. 2022:136 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Etelis coruscans Valenciennes 1862. Lutjanidae: Etelinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya), Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Mascarene Ridge (Nazareth Bank) and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island (Australia), Kermadec Islands, and Tonga. Habitat: marine.