margaritifera, Chelidoperca Weber [M.] 1913:207, Fig. 53 [Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition; ref. 4602] Between Misool [Misol] Island and New Guinea, 2°28.5'S, 131°3.3'E, Siboga station 166, depth 118 meters. Holotype (unique): ZMA 101029. Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:87 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Chelidoperca margaritifera Weber 1913 -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:133 [ref. 6441], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:471, 669 [ref. 8056], Paxton et al. 1989:492 [ref. 12442], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2473 [ref. 24815], Nakabo 2000:692 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:692 [ref. 26001], Shinohara et al. 2005:430 [ref. 28370], Hoese & Bray 2006:1032 [ref. 29000], Fricke et al. 2011:384 [ref. 31242], Larson et al. 2013:98 [ref. 32988], Bineesh et al. 2014:117 [ref. 33649], Williams & Carpenter 2015:287 [ref. 33647], Matsunuma & Motomura 2016:388, 399 [ref. 34335], Matsunuma et al. 2017:[19] [ref. 35700], Lee et al. 2019:23 [ref. 36888], Ogino et al. 2019:14 [ref. 37056], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 21 [ref. 38321], Matsunuma & Tashiro 2020:156 [ref. 37726], Parenti & Randall 2020:112 [ref. 37354], Allen & Erdmann 2024:330 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Chelidoperca margaritifera Weber 1913. Serranidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India and Bangladesh east to Papua New Guinea, north to Japan. Habitat: marine.