furcosus, Dentex Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:244 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Syntypes: MNHN 0132 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot & Daget 1972:83 [ref. 20898], Bauchot et al. 1983:6 [ref. 11366]. •Valid as Nemipterus furcosus (Valenciennes 1830) -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:86 [ref. 25477], Russell 1990:34 [ref. 19228], Russell 1991:36 [ref. 20179], Russell 1993:299 [ref. 13441], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:302 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:136 [ref. 23977], Anderson et al. 1998:24 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:157 [ref. 23965], Nakabo 2000:848 [ref. 25086], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:620 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Russell 2001:3065 [ref. 26106], Nakabo 2002:848 [ref. 26001], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:37 [ref. 27712], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:282 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1243 [ref. 29090], Barman & Mishra 2009:7 [ref. 37652], Ning et al. 2011:829 [ref. 32152], Larson 2013:144 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:144 [ref. 34464], Ning et al. 2015:5 [ref. 35427], Russell & Ho 2017:287 [ref. 35134], Motomura et al. 2017:146 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:175 [ref. 36460], Fricke et al. 2019:165 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 27 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:480 [ref. 37272], Muto in Motomura et al. 2021:33 [ref. 38121], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:195 [ref. 41223], Prokofiev 2022:694 [ref. 39593], Bangchongmanee et al. 2023:63 [ref. 40682], Vilasri et al. 2023:88 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Nemipterus furcosus (Valenciennes 1830). Nemipteridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Maldives, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to southern Japan, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: marine.