kaakan, Pristipoma Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:244 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Arian River, Coupang [Kupang], Timor; Puducherry and Mahé, India. Syntypes: MNHN 0074 (2) Malabar, 7685 (1) Puducherry, 7687 (1) Puducherry, 7688 (1) Mahé, A-7815 (1) Puducherry, B-2982 [ex MNHN 0000-7688] (1) Mahé; ZMB 8721 (1, right skin). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1983:40-41 [ref. 21546]. •Synonym of Pomadasys hasta (Bloch 1790) -- (Dor 1984:151 [ref. 29757], Roux 1986:329 [ref. 6209]). •Valid as Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier 1830) -- (Smith & McKay 1986:569 [ref. 5716], Allen & Swainston 1988:82 [ref. 25477], Goren & Dor 1994:41 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:212 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:358 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:128 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:360 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:178 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:178 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:150 [ref. 23965], Johnson 1999:736 [ref. 25471], Johnson in Randall & Lim 2000:619 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:131 [ref. 25480], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], McKay 2001:2987 [ref. 26103], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:191 [ref. 28072], Allen et al. 2006:1224 [ref. 29090], Motomura in Motomura et al. 2009:155 [ref. 31130], Larson et al. 2013:139 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:348 [ref. 32989], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:425 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:91 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:258 [ref. 34104], Hata et al. 2015:115 [ref. 34419], Ali 2017:8 [ref. 40067], Ali et al. 2018:327 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:210 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:97 [ref. 36273], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:165 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:243 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:70 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:165 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2019:169 [ref. 37021], Zajonz et al. 2019:78 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:471 [ref. 37272], Damadi et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38698], Taki et al. 2021:370 [ref. 39830], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:207 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:280 [ref. 39773], Zajonz et al. 2022:163 [ref. 40522], Nakamura et al. 2024:1 [ref. 41288]). Current status: Valid as Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier 1830). Haemulidae: Haemulinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen) and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Exmouth Gulf (Western Australia) and Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.
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