cinerascens, Sciaena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:53, xii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Red Sea. Neotype: MNHN A-1993. Originally Sciaena cinerascens, tahmel on p. 53; Scianea cinerascens on p. xii. Perhaps should be regarded as two names for the same taxon and needing action by first reviser or tahmel is unavailable; see Sakai & Nakabo 2006:347 [ref. 29152]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182]. Neotype designated by Sakai & Nakabo 2006:347 [ref. 29152]. •Valid as Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål 1775) -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:166 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:167 [ref. 29757], Smith 1986:603 [ref. 5712], Pequeño 1989:62 [ref. 14125], Winterbottom et al. 1989:41 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:215 [ref. 15987], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:873 [ref. 20764], Kuiter 1993:212 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:162 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:46 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:246 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:389 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:195 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:107 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:202 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:215 [ref. 25919], Khan 1998:231 [ref. 24980], Myers 1999:173 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:323 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:738 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268], Pequeño & Lamilla 2000:434 [ref. 24906], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:623 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:957 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:179 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:15 [ref. 25806], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Savinykh & Shevtsov 2001:132 [ref. 25203], Hutchins 2001:264 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:36 [ref. 25847], Sakai 2001:3293 [ref. 26121], Nakabo 2002:957 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:356, 626 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:41 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S111 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:631 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:124 [ref. 27510], Parin 2003:S14 [ref. 28536], Lobel & Lobel 2004:72 [ref. 27576], Sakai & Nakabo 2004:20 [ref. 27596], Randall et al. 2004:18 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:122 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:251 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:306 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:409 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:1322 [ref. 29000], Sakai & Nakabo 2006:338 [ref. 29152], Randall 2007:270 [ref. 30952], Fricke 2008:44 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:71 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:133 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:515 [ref. 31980], Knudsen & Clements 2013:6 [ref. 32384], Knudsen & Clements 2013:8, 28 [ref. 33031], Yoshida et al. 2013:162 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:98 [ref. 33932], Sakai & Nakabo 2014:[1] [ref. 33211], Parin et al. 2014:375 [ref. 33547], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:115 [ref. 36167], Psomadakis et al. 2015:288 [ref. 34104], Knudsen & Clements 2016:259, 262 [ref. 34458], Koeda et al. 2016:51 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:13 [ref. 35354], Robertson et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34961], Motomura et al. 2017:176 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:233 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:107 [ref. 36273], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:197 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:71 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:180 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:82 [ref. 36871], Guabiroba et al. 2020:702 [ref. 37571], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 20 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:141 [ref. 39118], Pimentel et al. 2020:6 [ref. 38051], Psomadakis et al. 2020:509 [ref. 37272], Robertson et al. 2020:156 [ref. 38098], Mochizuki et al. 2021:50 [ref. 38974], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:14 [ref. 39607], Heemstra 2022:343 [ref. 39773], Honda et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39421], Robertson et al. 2022:86 [ref. 39353], Carvalho-Filho 2023:186 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål 1775). Kyphosidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Belize and Saint Eustatius south to Bahia (Brazil), including Caribbean Sea; Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Line Islands (Kiribati) and Easter Island, north to southern Korea and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island (Australia), New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands and Austral Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.