pinguis, Sphyraena Günther [A.] 1874:157 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 13 (no. 74) (art. 23); ref. 14189] Yantai [Chefoo], Shantung Province, China, Western North Pacific. Syntypes: BMNH 1874.1.16.15-16 (2). •Synonym of Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829 -- (de Sylva 1975:83 [ref. 6302]). •Valid as Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874 -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:121 [ref. 6441], Chen et al. 1997:36 [ref. 26476], Cheng & Zhou 1997:239 [ref. 26385], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:12 [ref. 24670], Senou in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1336 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:272 [ref. 25480], Wang et al. 2001:202 [ref. 26566], Gavrenkov 2002:131 [ref. 25961], Nakabo 2002:1336 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:416, 670 [ref. 26218], Parin 2003:S25 [ref. 28536], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005:143 [ref. 28229], Vasil'eva 2007:175 [ref. 30517], Gomon 2008:776 [ref. 30616], Motomura et al. 2010:229 [ref. 31256], Parin et al. 2014:507 [ref. 33547], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:85 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:310 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:359 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:121 [ref. 36273], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:227 [ref. 36460], Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027], Eagderi et al. 2019:116 [ref. 37020], Kim et al. 2020:179 [ref. 39118], Kovačić et al. 2020:43 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:565 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:111 [ref. 37637], Kovačić et al. 2021:51 [ref. 39014], Sasaki in Motomura et al. 2021:76 [ref. 38121], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2022:250 [ref. 40160], Gus'kov et al. 2022:74 [ref. 39564], Balisco et al. 2023:5 [ref. 39932]). Current status: Valid as Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874. Sphyraenidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to Korea and central Japan, south to South Australia; eastern Mediterranean (Red Sea migrant). Habitat: marine.