oblongus, Gerres Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:479 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-9497. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1999-1121 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:16 [ref. 15502]. Lectotype selected by Iwatsuki et al. 2001:961 [ref. 25800]. •Valid as Gerres oblongus Cuvier 1830 -- (Dor 1984:147 [ref. 29757], Akazaki & Juso in Masuda et al. 1984:161 [ref. 6441], Woodland 1986:609 [ref. 6299], Winterbottom et al. 1989:38 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:40 [ref. 25356], Myers 1999:149 [ref. 23965], Iwatsuki et al. 1999:391 [ref. 24200], Nakabo 2000:838 [ref. 25086], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:619 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:101 [ref. 26368], Iwatsuki et al. 2001:961 [ref. 25800], Woodland 2001:2955 [ref. 26102], Nakabo 2002:838 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:627 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:94 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:17 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:258 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:288 [ref. 28239], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2007:91 [ref. 29037], Hoese & Bray 2006:1215 [ref. 29000], Kimura in Kimura & Iwatsuki 2009:150 [ref. 31129], Allen & Erdmann 2012:469 [ref. 31980], Koeda et al. 2016:44 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:205 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:96 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:161 [ref. 36673], Bogorodsky et al. 2020:523 [ref. 38001], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 20 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:464 [ref. 37272], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2022:351 [ref. 39785], Zajonz et al. 2022:159 [ref. 40522], Hasan et al. 2023:2210 [ref. 40412]). Current status: Valid as Gerres oblongus Cuvier 1830. Gerreidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles and Madagascar east to Philippines and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: brackish, marine.