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rivulatus, Siganus Forsskål [P. S.] & Niebuhr [C.] in Niebuhr 1775:25, x [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Lohajæ] Al-Luhayya, Yemen, Red Sea. Lectotype: ZMUC P6689 (dry skin). Paralectotypes: ZMUC P6690 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:72 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:54 [ref. 30182]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:54 [ref. 30182]. On p. x as rivulatus: nov. genus Siganus on p. 25 as "SCARUS siganus; rivulatus," the latter as two names for the same taxon; see Woodland 1990:17, 45 [ref. 19220] who regards Siganus as the intended generic name; also on p. 44 as Sc. [Scarus] dentibus Sidjan. Available by indication (ICZN Art. 12.2.2) from p. x, with diagnosis from p. 25 and 44 (see Fricke 2008:54 [ref. 30182]). Lectotype selected by Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:13 [ref. 20847]; lectotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965: Pl. 2 [ref. 20847]. •Valid as Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr 1775 -- (Tortonese 1973:456 [ref. 7192], Dor 1984:259 [ref. 29757], Ben-Tuvia in Whitehead et al. 1986:965 [ref. 13676], Woodland 1990:44 [ref. 19220], Goren & Dor 1994:69 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:548 [ref. 27969], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:146 [ref. 26232], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:137 [ref. 26753], Goren & Aronov 2002:239 [ref. 26560], Bariche 2003:52 [ref. 27018], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3330, 3338 [ref. 27945] with question, Golani 2005:58 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:108 [ref. 29533], Fricke 2008:54 [ref. 30182], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:68 [ref. 36649], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:429 [ref. 33460], DiBattista et al. 2015:21 [ref. 35706], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[17] 255 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:168 [ref. 36273], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Eagderi et al. 2019:111 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:140 [ref. 37515], Iglésias et al. 2020:301 [ref. 37987], Kovačić et al. 2020:34 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:80 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:61 [ref. 39014], Woodland 2022:215 [ref. 40143]). Current status: Valid as Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr 1775. Siganidae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen); Mediterranean Sea and Sea of Marmara (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.


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