acutipinnis, Sphyraena Day [F.] 1876:342, Pl. 79 (fig. 1) [The fishes of India Part 2; ref. 1081] Sind [Sindh], Pakistan, Arabian Sea, western Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): ZSI F1599. Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:160 [ref. 23762]. Based on one specimen originally; specimen described by Talwar 1968:197 [ref. 26958]. Kottelat (2013) cites a freshwater record. •Valid as Sphyraena acutipinnis Day 1876 -- (de Sylva 1975:83 [ref. 6302], de Sylva & Williams 1986:722 [ref. 6301], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Francis & Randall 1993:132 [ref. 20996], Randall 1995:367 [ref. 22896], Chen et al. 1997:35 [ref. 26476], Fricke 1999:555 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:743 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:123 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Senou 2001:3689 [ref. 26303], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:373 [ref. 28072], Mundy 2005:498 [ref. 28379], Bray & Hoese 2006:1749 [ref. 29049], Fricke et al. 2009:110 [ref. 30213], Kottelat 2013:445 [ref. 32989], Abdussamad et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33861], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:117 [ref. 36167], Psomadakis et al. 2015:308 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:358 [ref. 35805], Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027], Psomadakis et al. 2020:563 [ref. 37272], Morishita & Motomura 2020:564 [ref. 37508], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2022:246 [ref. 40160]). Current status: Valid as Sphyraena acutipinnis Day 1876. Sphyraenidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Madagascar east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Kermadec Islands. Habitat: marine.