occipitalis, Chelidoperca Kotthaus [A.] 1973:30, Fig. 299 [Meteor Forschungsergebnisse. Reihe D, Biologie No. 16; ref. 7572] Southwest of Socotra, Arabian Sea, 11°33.9'N, 52°54'E to 11°38'N, 52°52'E, Meteor station 102, depth 290-190 meters. Holotype (unique): ZMH 5136 [ex IOES 162]. Type catalog: Wilkens & Dohse 1993:417 [ref. 21161]. •Valid as Chelidoperca occipitalis Kotthaus 1973 -- (Manilo 1992:22 [131] [ref. 39140], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S104 [ref. 27377], Bineesh et al. 2014:119 [ref. 33649], Williams & Carpenter 2015:287 [ref. 33647], Psomadakis et al. 2015:195 [ref. 34104], Matsunuma & Motomura 2016:388 [ref. 34335], Rao & Naranji 2016:88 [ref. 36356], Matsunuma et al. 2017:[19] [ref. 35700], Ogino et al. 2019:14 [ref. 37056], Matsunuma & Tashiro 2020:149 [ref. 37726], Psomadakis et al. 2020:385 [ref. 37272] as cf. occipitalis, Parenti & Randall 2020:113 [ref. 37354], Akhilesh et al. 2021:50 [ref. 38701], Psomadakis et al. 2021:102 [ref. 38144], Heemstra 2022:34 [ref. 39742]). Current status: Valid as Chelidoperca occipitalis Kotthaus 1973. Serranidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Oman, Madagascar and Socotra (Yemen) east to India and Myanmar. Habitat: marine.