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pleurospilus, Centropristis Günther [A.] 1880:37, Pl. 16 (fig. D) [Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger in the years 1873-1876 v. 1 (pt 6); ref. 2011] Kai Islands, Challenger station 192, Indonesia, Banda Sea, depth 129 fathoms [ca. 236 meters]. Lectotype: BMNH 1879.5.14.153. Lectotype selected by Matsunuma & Tashiro 2020:142 [ref. 37726]. •Valid as Chelidoperca pleurospilus (Günther 1880) -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:133 [ref. 6441], Shen & Lin 1984:10 [ref. 13822], Yamakawa in Okamura et al. 1985:469, 668 [ref. 8056], Lee 1990:68 [ref. 19830], Baranes & Golani 1993:307 [ref. 22372], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2473 [ref. 24815] as pleurospilos, Nakabo 2000:692 [ref. 25086] as pleurospila, Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:609 [ref. 25122], Shinohara et al. 2001:321 [ref. 25995], Nakabo 2002:692 [ref. 26001] as pleurospila, Shinohara et al. 2005:430 [ref. 28370] as pleurospila, Larson et al. 2013:98 [ref. 32988] as pleurospilos, Bineesh et al. 2014:117 [ref. 33649], Williams & Carpenter 2015:287 [ref. 33647], Matsunuma & Motomura 2016:388, 399 [ref. 34335], Matsunuma et al. 2017:[19] [ref. 35700], Fricke et al. 2018:147 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:61 [ref. 36273], Koeda in Koeda & Ho 2019:666 [ref. 42208], Lee et al. 2019:23 [ref. 36888], Ogino et al. 2019:14 [ref. 37056], Kim et al. 2020:113 [ref. 39118], Matsunuma & Tashiro 2020:142 [ref. 37726], Parenti & Randall 2020:113 [ref. 37354], Sonoyama et al. 2020:53 [ref. 37637], Akhilesh et al. 2021:50 [ref. 38701], Heemstra 2022:34 [ref. 39742], Tang & Matsunuma 2022:206 [ref. 39623], Golani & Fricke 2026:129 [ref. 42831]). Current status: Valid as Chelidoperca pleurospilus (Günther 1880). Serranidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea (Thailand) east to Philippines, north to southern Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan), south to Cape Leveque (northern Western Australia) and New Caledonia. IUCN (2026): Not Assessed. Records from Red Sea and Madagascar based on Chelidoperca occipitalis Kotthaus 1973. Habitat: marine.

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