macrophthalmus, Sparus Bloch [M. E.] 1791:93, Pl. 272 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 5; ref. 4867] No locality. Syntypes: ZMB 1114 (1), 8597 (1, left skin). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:142 [ref. 24282]. On p. 73 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 8 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Polysteganus macrophthalmus (Bloch 1791) -- (Smith & Smith 1986:591 [ref. 5710]). •Valid as Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch 1791) -- (Tortonese 1973:408 [ref. 7192], Bauchot & Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:888 [ref. 13676], Bauchot & Hureau 1990:794 [ref. 18793], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:161 [ref. 25472], Afonso et al. 1999:75 [ref. 25466], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:90 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:42 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:86 [ref. 29533], Wirtz et al. 2007:35 [ref. 30263], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:47 [ref. 36649], Wirtz et al. 2013:126 [ref. 32972], Carpenter & Iwatsuki in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2589 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:143 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:265 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:61 [ref. 36892], Reiner 2019:216 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:89 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:42 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:84 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:54 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:79 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:280 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch 1791). Sparidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Galicia (Spain) south to Namibia, including Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.