altivelis, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:324, Pl. 35 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Java, Indonesia, and unknown locality. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-7174 (1, dry) no locality, RMNH (not found). Type catalog: Bauchot & Daget 1996:241 [ref. 22899]. •Valid as Epinephelus altivelis (Valenciennes 1828) -- (Ma & Craig 2018:455 [ref. 36100]). •Valid as Cromileptes altivelis (Valenciennes 1828) [genus both as Chromileptes and Cromileptes in current literature] -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:132 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Randall 1986:519 [ref. 5667], Allen & Swainston 1988:54 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:492 [ref. 12442] with genus as Chromileptes, Lee 1990:32 [ref. 19830], Randall et al. 1990:105 [ref. 15987], Randall & Heemstra 1991:73 [ref. 19601], Heemstra & Randall 1993:63 [ref. 21042], Kuiter 1993:129 [ref. 23929] with genus as Chromileptes, Mohsin & Ambak 1996:232 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:82 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:52 [ref. 26476], Larson & Williams 1997:354 [ref. 23967], Kuiter 1997:106 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:105 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:112 [ref. 23965], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2484 [ref. 24815], Johnson 1999:730 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:725 [ref. 25086] with genus as Chromileptes, Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:609 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:180 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:78 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:98 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:262 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:29 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:725 [ref. 26001] with genus as Chromileptes, Allen & Adrim 2003:31 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:621 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:51 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:119 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:153 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:345 [ref. 28379], Hoese et al. 2006:1007 [ref. 28999], Fricke et al. 2011:384 [ref. 31242] with genus as Cromileptes, Craig et al. 2011:62 [ref. 31786] with genus as Cromileptes, Allen & Erdmann 2012:267 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:98 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:326 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:60 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:83 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2019:116 [ref. 36673] as Cromileptes a., Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 21 [ref. 38321] as Cromileptes a., Parenti & Randall 2020:58 [ref. 37354], Psomadakis et al. 2020:386 [ref. 37272] as Cromileptes a., Akhilesh et al. 2021:50 [ref. 38701], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:665 [ref. 40722] as Cromileptes a., Ray et al. 2023:2 [ref. 39988]). Current status: Valid as Chromileptes altivelis (Valenciennes 1828). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: West Bengal (India), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Fiji, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and Queensland (Australia). Hawaiian records probably are based on released aquarium fish. Habitat: marine.