forsteri, Sphyraena Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:353 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 3; ref. 4879] New Guinea. Neotype: MNHN A-3537. Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1971:676, 721 [ref. 21541]. As Sphyraena forsteri? Originally based on a drawing of fish from Tahiti. Neotype designated by Klausewitz & Bauchot 1967:117 [ref. 20910]. •Valid as Sphyraena forsteri Cuvier 1829 -- (de Sylva 1975:80 [ref. 6302], Kyushin et al. 1977:60 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:47 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:194 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:121 [ref. 6441], de Sylva & Williams 1986:724 [ref. 6301], Winterbottom et al. 1989:51 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:292 [ref. 15987], Gomon et al. 1994:665 [ref. 22532], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:295 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:368 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:196 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:220 [ref. 23922], Randall et al. 1997:292 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:276 [ref. 23965], Senou in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1335 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:20 [ref. 25806], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:103 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Senou 2001:3692 [ref. 26303], Nakabo 2002:1335 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:63 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:208 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:30 [ref. 27624], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:41 [ref. 27712], Adrim et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27715], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:374 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:607 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:498 [ref. 28379], Bray & Hoese 2006:1750 [ref. 29049], Gomon 2008:775 [ref. 30616], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1038 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:214 [ref. 32988], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:309 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:208 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:340 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:358 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:120 [ref. 36273], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:226 [ref. 36460], Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027], Eagderi et al. 2019:116 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:307 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 17 [ref. 38321], Morishita et al. 2020:[6] [ref. 37447], Psomadakis et al. 2020:564 [ref. 37272], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2022:248 [ref. 40160], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:237 [ref. 41223], Vilasri et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40764], Sekar et al. 2024:[3] [ref. 41302]). Current status: Valid as Sphyraena forsteri Cuvier 1829. Sphyraenidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Perisan Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Society Islands and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.