tolu, Dentex Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:248 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Puducherry [Pondicherry], India; New Guinea. Syntypes: MNHN A-6151 (1, dry), A-8086 (1, dry) and 8772 (1) Puducherry; MNHN 0000-9038 (2) New Guinea. Type catalog: Bauchot & Daget 1972:85 [ref. 20898], Bauchot et al. 1983:7 [ref. 11366]. •Valid as Nemipterus tolu (Valenciennes 1830) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:91 [ref. 19754], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:176 [ref. 6441], Dor 1984:145 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Nemipterus peronii (Valenciennes 1830) -- (Russell 1990:49 [ref. 19228], Russell 1993:303 [ref. 13441], Randall 1995:216 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:185 [ref. 23922], Russell 2001:3071 [ref. 26106], Randall 2005:282 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:335 [ref. 28867], Ning et al. 2011:829 [ref. 32152], Kottelat 2013:349 [ref. 32989], Golani & Fricke 2018:94 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:90 [ref. 37020], Russell 2022:331 [ref. 39836]). Current status: Synonym of Nemipterus peronii (Valenciennes 1830). Nemipteridae. Habitat: marine.