seheli, Mugil crenilabis var. Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:73, xiv [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Lohajæ] Al-Luhayya, Yemen, Red Sea; [no specific locality stated] Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ?ZMUC P71373 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:73 [ref. 9588]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:21 [ref. 30182]. Possible holotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:26, Pl. 37 [ref. 20847] as tade. Neotype, as BMNH 1969.2.8.2, designated by Thomson 1997:506 [ref. 23428] because of uncertainty of holotype. •Valid as Mugil seheli Forsskål 1775 -- (Walbaum 1792:227 [4572]). •Valid as Valamugil seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:62 [ref. 19756], Dor 1984:193 [ref. 29757], Yoshino & Senou in Masuda et al. 1984:120 [ref. 6441], Smith & Smith 1986:719 [ref. 5717], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:463 [ref. 25598], Winterbottom et al. 1989:50 [ref. 13251] with question, Allen 1991:148 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:902 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:126 [ref. 23448], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:204 [ref. 27969], Thomson 1997:505 [ref. 23428], Larson & Williams 1997:365 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:205 [ref. 23922], Keith et al. 1999:90 [ref. 24548], Harrison & Senou 1999:2107 [ref. 24780], Johnson 1999:742 [ref. 25471], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Myers & Donaldson 2003:614 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Mundy 2005:279 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:685 [ref. 29000], Larson et al. 2013:59 [ref. 32988]). •Valid as Osteomugil seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Ali et al. 2018:341 [ref. 36183]). •Valid as Moolgarda seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Randall 1995:237 [ref. 22896], Myers 1999:71 [ref. 23965], Chang et al. 1999:39 [ref. 24091], Fricke 1999:360 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:541 [ref. 25086], Senou in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Randall & Earle 2000:14 [ref. 25806], Sakai et al. 2001:104 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:541 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:44 [ref. 26830] with genus as Moolgardia, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:23 [ref. 27510], Randall 2005:77 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:30 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:44 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:80 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:369 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:157 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:280 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:36 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:296 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:13 [ref. 35333], Shen & Durand 2016:79 [ref. 35591], Durand & Whitfield 2016:109 [ref. 35590] with author as Forsskål 1775, Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Fricke et al. 2018:95 [ref. 35805], Suresh et al. 2018:151 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:85 [ref. 37020], Psomadakis et al. 2020:520 [ref. 37272], Toyama et al. 2021:59 [ref. 38509]). •Valid as Crenimugil seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Durand & Borsa 2015:268 [ref. 34115], Durand 2016:30 [ref. 35589], Arndt & Fricke 2019:21 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:75 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:65 [ref. 36871], Kim et al. 2020:77 [ref. 39118], Mochizuki et al. 2022:21 [ref. 39612], Zajonz et al. 2022:51 [ref. 40522], Jamandre 2023:171 [ref. 40455], Allen & Erdmann 2024:173 [ref. 40796]). •Valid as Crenimugil seheli (Fabricius 1775) -- (Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412], Fricke et al. 2024:78 [ref. 41255]). •Valid as Moolgarda seheli (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:21 [ref. 30182], Hasan et al. 2020:138 [ref. 37945], Taki et al. 2021:315 [ref. 39830], Yoshigou 2022:14 [ref. 39640] as Moolgarda cf. seheli, Ghasamzadeh 2022:322 [ref. 39712], Furuhashi et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40140], Bogorodsky et al. 2024:15 [ref. 41171]). Current status: Valid as Moolgarda seheli (Fabricius 1775). Mugilidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Suez, Socotra Island to the Arabian/Persian Gulf and Pakistan, south to Seychelles, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) and South Africa, east to Mariana Islands and Fiji, north to Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.