hirundinaceus, Centropristis Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:450 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Japan. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-7428 (1, dry, poor condition), 0000-3061 (1, dry); ZMB 6983 (1, not found), 10282 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:12 [ref. 19232]. •Valid as Chelidoperca hirundinacea (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:133 [ref. 6441], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:469, 668 [ref. 8056], Lee 1990:68 [ref. 19830], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:231 [ref. 27969] as hirudinacea, Chen et al. 1997:52 [ref. 26476], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2473 [ref. 24815], Nakabo 2000:692 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:609 [ref. 25122] as hirundacea, Shinohara et al. 2001:321 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:692 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:309, 590 [ref. 26218], Shinohara et al. 2005:430 [ref. 28370], Shinohara et al. 2014:259 [ref. 33330], Bineesh et al. 2014:117 [ref. 33649], Williams & Carpenter 2015:287 [ref. 33647], Matsunuma & Motomura 2016:388, 399 [ref. 34335], Motomura et al. 2017:83 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma et al. 2017:[19] [ref. 35700], Lee et al. 2019:23 [ref. 36888], Matsunuma & Tashiro 2020:154 [ref. 37726], Ogino et al. 2019:14 [ref. 37056], Kim et al. 2020:113 [ref. 39118], Parenti & Randall 2020:112 [ref. 37354], Sonoyama et al. 2020:53 [ref. 37637], Tang & Matsunuma 2022:206 [ref. 39623]). Current status: Valid as Chelidoperca hirundinacea (Valenciennes 1831). Serranidae. Distribution: Western Pacific: eastern Indonesia and Philippines north to southern Korea and Japan, south to Papua New Guinea. Habitat: marine.