erythropterus, Lutjanus Bloch [M. E.] 1790:115, Pl. 249 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 4; ref. 469] Japan [Nagasaki, Kyushu Island]. Lectotype: ZMB 8197 (right skin). Paralectotypes: ZMB 8198 (1, right skin), 8770 (1, dry, missing). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:97 [ref. 24282]. On p. 93 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 7 [ref. 21381]. Lectotype selected by Paepke 1999:97 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch 1790 -- (Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:170 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:142 [ref. 29757], Allen & Talbot 1985:36 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:78 [ref. 6843], Allen & Swainston 1988:80 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:36 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:37 [ref. 25356] as erytropterus, Goren & Dor 1994:38 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:199 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:275 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:122 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:359 [ref. 23967], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:100 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2872 [ref. 26099], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Allen et al. 2006:1199 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2012:448 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:242 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:195 [ref. 35805], Eagderi et al. 2019:80 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:449 [ref. 37272], Sarkar et al. 2021:442 [ref. 38230], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:237 [ref. 39746]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch 1790. Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Chagos Archipelago east to Philippines and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.