lactarius, Scomber Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:31 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Tranquebar [Tharangambadi], India. Syntypes: ZMB 8761 (1, dry, lost), 8762 (1, dry, lost). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:93 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Lactarius lactarius (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:194 [ref. 19754], Paxton et al. 1989:569 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:33 [ref. 13251], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:223 [ref. 24016], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:290 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:35 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:169 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:414 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:154 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:58 [ref. 26476], Fricke 1999:240 [ref. 24106], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:244 [ref. 24754], Leis 1999:2649 [ref. 24838], Mishra et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25315], Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Paxton et al. 2006:1130 [ref. 28994], Motomura 2009:112 [ref. 30446], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:70 [ref. 35264], Larson et al. 2013:117 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:212 [ref. 34104], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:122 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:75 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:143 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 22 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:414 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:161 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:166 [ref. 39747]). Current status: Valid as Lactarius lactarius (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Lactariidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Fiji, north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.