rutilans, Aphareus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:490 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Red Sea; possibly also Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean; and Indonesia. Syntypes: MNHN A-7453 (1) Red Sea, ZMB (1) Red Sea, Ehrenberg (apparently lost). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:5 [ref. 21549]. •Valid as Pristipomoides rutilans (Cuvier 1830) -- (Liu et al. 2023:11 [ref. 40483] with question). •Valid as Aphareus rutilans Cuvier 1830 -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:120 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:81 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:136 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:167 [ref. 6441], Allen 1985:19 [ref. 6843], Anderson 1986:572 [ref. 5634], Anderson 1987:8 [ref. 13770], Allen & Swainston 1988:78 [ref. 25477], Leis & Lee 1994:61 [ref. 21402], Goren & Dor 1994:36 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:197 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:270 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:124 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:80 [ref. 26476], Randall et al. 1997:512 [ref. 25919], Adam et al. 1998:12 [ref. 23610], Myers 1999:144 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:264 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:829 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:493 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2855 [ref. 26099], Randall et al. 2002:158 [ref. 26192], Nakabo 2002:829 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:626 [ref. 27495], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:85 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:196 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:243 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:380 [ref. 28379], Randall et al. 2005:122 [ref. 28745], Allen et al. 2006:1194 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:247 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:60 [ref. 30213], Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:135 [ref. 31128], Psomadakis et al. 2015:239 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:128 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:193 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:89 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:151 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:76 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:444 [ref. 37272], Shimose et al. 2020:475 [ref. 37275], Durville et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38802], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:229 [ref. 39746], Zajonz et al. 2022:134 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Aphareus rutilans Cuvier 1830. Lutjanidae: Etelinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to northern Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.