semilaevis, Cynoglossus Günther [A.] 1873:379 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 12 (no. 71); ref. 18198] Chefoo, Shantung Province, China. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1873.9.23.16. •Valid as Cynoglossus semilaevis Günther 1873 -- (Menon 1977:92 [ref. 7071], Ochiai in Masuda et al. 1984:356 [ref. 6441], Kim & Choi 1994:807 [ref. 22283], Lindberg & Fedorov 1993:209 [ref. 21500], Li & Wang 1995:364 [ref. 16193], Cheng & Zhou 1997:462 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:496 [ref. 24032], Nakabo 2000:1390 [ref. 25182], Munroe 2001:3895 [ref. 26314], Wang et al. 2001:320 [ref. 26566], Kim & Park 2002:415 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:1390 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:441, 689 [ref. 26218], Fricke et al. 2017:85 [ref. 35160], Kim et al. 2020:197 [ref. 39118], Tashiro 2022:86 [ref. 39012]). Current status: Valid as Cynoglossus semilaevis Günther 1873. Cynoglossidae: Cynoglossinae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Yellow Sea and East China Sea (China) to southern Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.