scriba, Perca Linnaeus [C.] 1758:292 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] No locality. Holotype (unique): NRM 442. Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:240 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Herrera 1896:52 [ref. 39336], Tortonese 1973:356 [ref. 7192], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:791 [ref. 13676], Smith 1990:706 [ref. 18227], Arruda 1997:81 [ref. 24952], Rojas M. & Pequeño 2001:166 [ref. 25813], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:77 [ref. 26753], Falcón et al. 2003:145 [ref. 39343], Parin 2003:S3 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:37 [ref. 37112], Vasil'eva 2007:86 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:170 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:42 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:353 [ref. 33547], Wirtz & Iwamoto 2016:192 [ref. 34418], Heemstra & Anderson in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2413 [ref. 34618], Iwamoto & Wirtz 2018:27 [ref. 36189], Martins & Carneiro 2018:127 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:246 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:89 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:41 [ref. 37519], Parenti & Randall 2020:127 [ref. 37354], Abliazov et al. 2021:9 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:81 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:42 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:78 [ref. 39014], Vella et al. 2021:115 [ref. 38149]). Current status: Valid as Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758). Serranidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: English Channel south to Western Sahara, including Azores and Madeira; southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa north to KwaZulu-Natal (rare). West African and Canary Islands populations now classified as Serranus papilionaceus Valenciennes 1832. Habitat: brackish, marine.