jarbua, Sciaena Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:xii, 44, 50 [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Djiddae (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea). Lectotype: ZMUC P43571 (dry skin). Paralectotypes: ZMUC P43572 (1, dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:62 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182]. Types figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pls. 17-18 [ref. 20847]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182]. Lectotype selected by Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:20 [ref. 20847]. Also named Sciaena djabub on p. 44. Originally also described from Sues (As-Suways, Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea). Authorship follows Fricke 2008:46 [ref. 30182]. Misspelled jerbua by Griffith & Smith 1834:120 [ref. 1908], in synonymy. •Valid as Therapon [sic] jarbua (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:108 [ref. 29757], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:248 [ref. 26639], Ataur Rahman 1989:342 [ref. 24860], Zheng 1989:329 [ref. 21202] in Terapon, Ye in Pan et al. 1991:411 [ref. 23876]). •Valid as Terapon jarbua (Forsskål 1775) -- (Vari 1978:255 [ref. 4514], Kyushin et al. 1982:104 [ref. 19754], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:174 [ref. 6204], Allen & Swainston 1988:62 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:537 [ref. 12442], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:528 [ref. 25598], Randall et al. 1990:134 [ref. 15987], Allen 1991:128 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:811 [ref. 20764], Suzuki & Uno 1992:3 [ref. 24139], Kottelat et al. 1993:108 [ref. 23448], Kuiter 1993:148 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:160 [ref. 25479], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:280 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:29 [ref. 25356], Poll & Gosse 1995:117 [ref. 24781], Kottelat & Lim 1996:245 [ref. 23210], Randall 1995:152 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:249 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:192 [ref. 22772], Rema Devi et al. 1996:142 [ref. 24021], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Larson & Williams 1997:356 [ref. 23967], Allen 1997:98 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:149 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:106 [ref. 26476], Takahashi et al. 1997:45 [ref. 24971], Kuiter 1997:134 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:134 [ref. 25919], Sato et al. 1998:39 [ref. 24972], Myers 1999:174 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:216 [ref. 24106], Lee & Tsai 1999:279 [ref. 24218], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:243 [ref. 24754], Mizuno et al. 1999:8 [ref. 25311], Mishra et al. 1999:85 [ref. 25315], Johnson 1999:731 [ref. 25471], Vari in Randall & Lim 2000:612 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:951 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:66 [ref. 25191], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:208 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:182 [ref. 25480], Kottelat 2001:59 [ref. 25482], Johnson 2001:731 [ref. 25471], Sakai et al. 2001:94 [ref. 25693], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:185 [ref. 25703], Shimizu 2001:28 [ref. 25799], Hutchins 2001:31 [ref. 25847], Allen et al. 2002:242 [ref. 25930], Vari 2001:3314 [ref. 26126], Nakabo 2002:951 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:358, 627 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:34 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S105 [ref. 27377], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:125 [ref. 27510], Khan 2003:9 [ref. 27710], Ataur Rahman 2003:374 [ref. 31338], Randall et al. 2004:13 [ref. 27624], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:180 [ref. 28072], Seegers et al. 2003:42 [ref. 28087], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:196 [ref. 28107], Randall 2005:183 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1342 [ref. 29004], Khalaf & Zajonz 2007:427 [ref. 31739], Fricke et al. 2009:50 [ref. 30213], Ghanbarifardi & Malek 2009:[4] 498 [ref. 37937], Satapoomin 2009:197 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2010:142 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:362 [ref. 31980], Davis et al. 2012:1173 [ref. 32013], Hata et al. 2012:29 [ref. 32412], Fricke et al. 2013:257 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:163 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:371 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:168 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:418 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:108 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:203 [ref. 34104], Miesen et al. 2016:91 [ref. 34492], Koeda et al. 2016:61 [ref. 35333], Kwun et al. 2017:142 [ref. 37287], Motomura et al. 2017:176 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:319 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:244 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:70 [ref. 36273], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2018:110 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:270 [ref. 36495], Arndt & Fricke 2019:31 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:118 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:200 [ref. 36673], Yoshigou 2019:129 [ref. 36562], Zajonz et al. 2019:73 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:400 [ref. 37272], Freyhof et al. 2020:208 [ref. 37658], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 21 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:143 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:82 [ref. 37637], Golani 2021:43 [ref. 38303], Hibino in Motomura et al. 2021:51 [ref. 38121], Keith et al. 2021:64 [ref. 38257], Taki et al. 2021:384 [ref. 39830], Esmaeili et al. 2022:497 [ref. 39253], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:149 [ref. 41223], Zajonz et al. 2022:96 [ref. 40522], Ibrahim et al. 2023:2 [ref. 40081], Nguyen et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40246], Jamandre 2023:163 [ref. 40455], Vilasri et al. 2023:92 [ref. 40764]). •Valid as Terapon jarbua (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:45 [ref. 30182], Kovačić et al. 2021:64 [ref. 39014], Vari 2022:153 [ref. 39751], Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:219 [ref. 40377], Allen & Erdmann 2024:386 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Terapon jarbua (Fabricius 1775). Terapontidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Mozambique Channel, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) and Persian Gulf east to Palau, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Korea and central Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia); Mediterranean Sea (immigrant through Suez Canal). Now extinct in La Réunion. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.