furcatus, Grammistes Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:187, Pl. 43 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] In India orientali [Indonesia]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 960. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:85 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Pomadasys furcatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Dor 1984:151 [ref. 29757], Smith & McKay 1986:569 [ref. 5716] as furcatum, Goren & Dor 1994:41 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:213 [ref. 22896], Iwatsuki et al. 1999:84 [ref. 23960], Fricke 1999:290 [ref. 24106], McKay 2001:2986 [ref. 26103] as furcatum, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377] as furcatum, Fricke et al. 2009:65 [ref. 30213] as furcatum, Psomadakis et al. 2015:258 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:209 [ref. 35805], Parenti 2019:168 [ref. 37021], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321], Mohanty et al. 2020:1437 [ref. 37820], Psomadakis et al. 2020:471 [ref. 37272], Damadi et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38698], Heemstra 2022:279 [ref. 39773]). Current status: Valid as Pomadasys furcatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Haemulidae: Haemulinae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Comoros, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius); Odisha (India) and Sri Lankaeast to Myanmar and western Indonesia. Habitat: marine.