nigripinnis, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:339 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] No locality [probably Indian Ocean]. Syntypes: MNHN A-5733 (2, dry skins, left side). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:32 [ref. 19232]. •Synonym of Cephalopholis urodeta (Forster 1801) -- (Randall et al. 1990:104 [ref. 15987], Randall & Heemstra 1991:69 [ref. 19601], Heemstra & Randall 1993:61 [ref. 21042], Fricke 1999:181 [ref. 24106], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2483 [ref. 24815], Randall 2005:152 [ref. 28239]). •Valid as Cephalopholis nigripinnis (Valenciennes 1828) -- (Heemstra & Randall 1986:518 [ref. 5667], Winterbottom et al. 1989:23 [ref. 13251], Allen 2000:86 [ref. 37268], Allen & Adrim 2003:31 [ref. 26830], Heemstra et al. 2004:3319 [ref. 27945], Allen & Erdmann 2012:264 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:256 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:146 [ref. 35805], Ma & Craig 2018:454 [ref. 36100], Parenti & Randall 2020:55 [ref. 37354], Akhilesh et al. 2021:49 [ref. 38701], Durville et al. 2021:311 [ref. 38802], Heemstra 2022:43 [ref. 39742], Allen & Erdmann 2024:281 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Cephalopholis nigripinnis (Valenciennes 1828). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: Aliwal Shoal and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Andaman Sea and Christmas Island (eastern Indian Ocean). Habitat: marine.