gibba, Sciaena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:46, xi [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] No locality stated (Red Sea). No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:271 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:35 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:88 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:51 [ref. 19754], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:170 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:140 [ref. 29757], Allen & Talbot 1985:42 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:84 [ref. 6843], Allen in Anderson 1986:575 [ref. 5634], Winterbottom et al. 1989:36 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:180 [ref. 15987], Randall et al. 1993:230 [ref. 21003], Kuiter 1993:185 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:37 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:200 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:278 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:124 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:83 [ref. 26476], Randall et al. 1997:180 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:145 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:270 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:735 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:825 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:618 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:246 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:14 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:102 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:100 [ref. 26368], Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:245 [ref. 27511], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2876 [ref. 26099], Nakabo 2002:825 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:626 [ref. 27495], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:89 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:199 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:247 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:382 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1200 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:252 [ref. 30952], Fricke 2008:35 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:61 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:119 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:449 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:259 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:85 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:243 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:40 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:131 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:196 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:90 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:80 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:153 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:450 [ref. 37272], Kim et al. 2021:160 [ref. 39117], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:238 [ref. 39746], Zajonz et al. 2022:144 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål 1775). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Aliwal Shoal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Line Islands (Kiribati), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.