malabaricus, Sparus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:278 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] [In mari lndico oram Coromandelicam] Coromandel coast, India, eastern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): ZMB 8161 (right skin). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:98 [ref. 24282]. Lectotype selected by Paepke 1999:92 [ref. 24282]. Though the species name might indicate 'Malabar' as type locality (western coast of Indian Peninsula), Bloch & Schneider 1801:279 [ref. 471] gave it as Coromandel coast (eastern coast). •Valid as Lutjanus malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:84 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:53 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:141 [ref. 29757], Allen & Talbot 1985:56 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:102 [ref. 6843], Allen & Swainston 1988:80 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:36 [ref. 13251], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:226 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:37 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:201 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:282 [ref. 27969] with author as Schneider, Allen 1997:122 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:85 [ref. 26476], Larson & Williams 1997:359 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:172 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:182 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:146 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:735 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:823 [ref. 25086] with author as Schneider, Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:618 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:493 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:121 [ref. 25480], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2884 [ref. 26099] with author as Schneider, Nakabo 2002:823 [ref. 26001] with author as Schneider, Allen & Adrim 2003:39 [ref. 26830] with author as Schneider, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Allen et al. 2006:1201 [ref. 29090], Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:140 [ref. 31128], Allen & Erdmann 2012:451 [ref. 31980], Kim et al. 2012:314 [ref. 39490], Larson et al. 2013:132 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:343 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:132 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:86 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:246 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:132 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:326 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:198 [ref. 35805], Iwatsuki in Kimura et al. 2018:152 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:82 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:452 [ref. 37272], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:241 [ref. 39746], Zajonz et al. 2022:149 [ref. 40522], Jamandre 2023:173 [ref. 40455], Vilasri et al. 2023:86 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Socotra (Yemen), Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf east to Palau, Fiji and Tonga, north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.