orcini, Brama Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:295 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Pris sous l'équateur, par 85° de longitude à l'orient de Paris [eastern Indian Ocean, ca. 0°N, 87°20'E]. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-0415. Type catalog: Bauchot 1970:32 [ref. 20740]. •Valid as Brama orcini Cuvier 1831 -- (Mead 1972:72 [ref. 6976], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:159 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:634 [ref. 5712], Moteki et al. 1995:421 [ref. 21594], Anderson et al. 1998:24 [ref. 23611], Nakabo 2000:815 [ref. 25086], Last & Moteki 2001:2832 [ref. 26096], Nakabo 2002:815 [ref. 26001], Nelson et al. 2004:142 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:297 [ref. 28072], Love et al. 2005:120 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:375 [ref. 28379], Bray et al. 2006:1185 [ref. 29088], Fricke et al. 2009:59 [ref. 30213], Bos & Gumanao 2013:2 [ref. 41473], Page et al. 2013:146 [ref. 32708], Motomura et al. 2017:126 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:192 [ref. 35805], Kim et al. 2020:131 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:443 [ref. 37272], Love et al. 2021:157 [ref. 39279], Anderson 2022:21 [ref. 39875], Page et al. 2023:116 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Brama orcini Cuvier 1831. Bramidae. Distribution: Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals, western Mascarenes (La Réunion), Lakshadweep (India), Maldives, Chagos Archipelago and Sri Lanka east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Korea; eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Mexico. Habitat: marine.