biguttatus, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:507 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Trincomalee, Sri Lanka; Ambon Island, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-7147 to 0000-7150 (1, 3, 3, 4); ZMB 136 [ex MNHN] (1) Sri Lanka. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:19-20 [ref. 21549]. •Valid as Lutjanus biguttatus (Valenciennes 1830) -- (Allen & Talbot 1985:22 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:62 [ref. 6843], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:283 [ref. 24014], Allen 1997:124 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:145 [ref. 23965], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:102 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:100 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2864 [ref. 26099], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:88 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:244 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1198 [ref. 29090], Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:136 [ref. 31128], Allen & Erdmann 2012:445 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:341 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:85 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2019:152 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:447 [ref. 37272], Sato et al. 2021:18 [ref. 38531], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:9 [ref. 40448], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:235 [ref. 39746], Allen & Erdmann 2024:477 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus biguttatus (Valenciennes 1830). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Maldives, Myanmar and Andaman Sea east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to southern Japan, south to Great Barrier Reef/Queensland (Australia) and Solomon Islands. Habitat: marine.