maculata, Percis Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:179, Pl. 38 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu State, India [originally from Tranquebar]. Neotype: BPBM 20453. Neotype designated by Randall 2008:169 [ref. 29931]. •Valid as Parapercis maculata (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Randall 1995:305 [ref. 22896], Fricke 1999:464 [ref. 24106], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:631 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:155 [ref. 25480], Randall 2001:3505 [ref. 26283], Allen & Adrim 2003:52 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S116 [ref. 27377], Randall 2008:169 [ref. 29931], Prokofiev 2008:884 [ref. 29939] perhaps is puchella of Randall 2008, Fricke et al. 2009:92 [ref. 30213], Imamura 2009:241 [ref. 30434], Sparks & Baldwin 2012:37 [ref. 31821], Allen & Erdmann 2012:755 [ref. 31980], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:428 [ref. 33460], Johnson & Motomura 2017:126 [ref. 35593], Mohanchander et al. 2017:203 [ref. 38859], Fricke et al. 2018:301 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:134 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:93 [ref. 37020], Donaldson 2022:296 [ref. 39942]). Current status: Valid as Parapercis maculata (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Pinguipedidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Indonesia. Habitat: marine.