macrolepis, Saurida Tanaka [S.] 1917:39 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 29 (no. 340); ref. 17353] Tokyo market, Japan. Neotype: ZUMT 7478. Other specimens: ZUMT 7477 (1, lost), 7479 (1). Type catalog: Aizawa et al. 2022:240 [ref. 39655] as syntypes. The described specimen was lost; I recorded ZUMT 7478-79 as syntypes based on external information. Inoue & Nakabo 2006:391 [ref. 29238] did not accept that and named 7478 as the neotype. •Synonym of Saurida undosquamis (Richardson 1848) -- (Sulak in Whitehead et al. 1984:408 [ref. 13675]). •Valid as Saurida macrolepis Tanaka 1917 -- (Inoue & Nakabo 2006:389 [ref. 29238], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:61 [ref. 35264], Russell et al. 2015:566 [ref. 33799], Nakae in Kimura et al. 2018:55 [ref. 36460], Yeo et al. 2018:209 [ref. 36438], Eagderi et al. 2019:20 [ref. 37020], Kim et al. 2020:67 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:24 [ref. 37637], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:5 [ref. 39868], Furuhashi et al. 2022:[7] [ref. 39778], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:77 [ref. 41223], Choi et al. 2023:[3] [ref. 40657], Fukutani 2023:31 [ref. 40836], Vilasri et al. 2023:74 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Saurida macrolepis Tanaka 1917. Synodontidae: Harpadontinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa and Persian Gulf east to Gulf of Thailand, north to southern Korea, central Sea of Japan (Japan) and Pacific coast of southern Japan. Former records from Red Sea and Mediterranean based on S. lessepsianus. Habitat: marine.