mookalee, Trachinotus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832:423 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 1000] Malabar coast, India. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-2981 (1) Puducherry, A-6823 (1) Malabar. Type catalog: Smith-Vaniz et al. 1979:29 [ref. 12247]. •Valid as Trachinotus mookalee Cuvier 1832 -- (Randall 1995:189 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:167 [ref. 23922], Smith-Vaniz 1999:2749 [ref. 24833], Smith-Vaniz in Randall & Lim 2000:616 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:135 [ref. 26352], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S107 [ref. 27377], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:31 [ref. 31826], Hussain & Jawad 2014:256 [ref. 33657], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:45 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:231 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:324 [ref. 36183], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:139 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:220 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:53 [ref. 37020], Smith-Vaniz & Walsh 2019:27 [ref. 36875], Smith-Vaniz 2022:64 [ref. 39876]). Current status: Valid as Trachinotus mookalee Cuvier 1832. Carangidae: Trachinotinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman east to eastern China (East China Sea), north to southern Japan. Habitat: marine.