cunnesius, Mugil Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836:114 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 11; ref. 1005] Coromandel coast, India; Molucca Islands, Indonesia; Mumbai, India. Syntypes: MNHN A-4636 (1, dry) Moluccas, A-3701-02 (2, 2) Mumbai, A-3726-27 (2, 1) Malabar, B-2678 [ex A.3702] (1), B-2629 [ex A.3701] (1), 1992-0561 [ex A-3727] (1). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1972:688-689 [ref. 21541] with MNHN A.4636 as holotype. Based on 'Kunnesée' of Russell 1803:65, Pl. 181(vol. 2) [ref. 13862], and on additional syntype material. •Valid as Liza cunnesius (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Dor 1984:191 [ref. 29757], Liu & Shen 1991:277 [ref. 19215]). •Valid as Valamugil cunnesius (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Yoshino & Senou in Masuda et al. 1984:120 [ref. 6441], Smith & Smith 1986:719 [ref. 5717], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:463 [ref. 25598], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:901 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:126 [ref. 23448], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:204 [ref. 27969], Thomson 1997:501 [ref. 23428], Larson & Williams 1997:364 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:205 [ref. 23922], Fricke 1999:361 [ref. 24106], Keith et al. 1999:86 [ref. 24548], Harrison & Senou 1999:2103 [ref. 24780], Skelton 2001:373 [ref. 27406], Skelton 2002:172 [ref. 26839], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:41 [ref. 27712], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:369 [ref. 28072], Hoese & Bray 2006:684 [ref. 29000], Marshall 2011:201 [ref. 31755], Larson et al. 2013:58 [ref. 32988], Endruweit 2024:58 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Osteomugil cunnesius (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Durand et al. 2012:694 [ref. 32366], Durand & Borsa 2015:268 [ref. 34115], Durand 2016:34 [ref. 35589], Ali et al. 2018:341 [ref. 36183], Suresh et al. 2018:149 [ref. 36495], Zajonz et al. 2019:65 [ref. 36871] as cf. cunnesius, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 10 [ref. 38321], Hasan et al. 2020:140 [ref. 37945], Zajonz et al. 2022:53 [ref. 40522], Jamandre 2023:171 [ref. 40455]). •Valid as Moolgarda cunnesius (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Randall 1995:237 [ref. 22896], Chang et al. 1999:39 [ref. 24091], Senou in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2009:29 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:369 [ref. 31242], Kottelat 2013:278 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:57 [ref. 34464], Psomadakis et al. 2015:295 [ref. 34104], Shen & Durand 2016:79 [ref. 35591], Durand & Whitfield 2016:109 [ref. 35590], Fricke et al. 2018:94 [ref. 35805], Jawad et al. 2018:118 [ref. 36262] as M. cunnesius s.l., Musikasinthorn in Kimura et al. 2018:224 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:86 [ref. 37020], Psomadakis et al. 2020:518 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:315 [ref. 39830], Ghasamzadeh 2022:320 [ref. 39712], Seo & Kim 2023:910 [ref. 40745], Fricke et al. 2024:79 [ref. 41255]). Current status: Valid as Moolgarda cunnesius (Valenciennes 1836). Mugilidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Persian Gulf, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to New Guinea and Vanuatu, north to Taiwan and southern Korea, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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