maculatus, Johnius Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:75 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Tranquebar [Tharangambadi], India. Possible syntypes: ZMB 8732 (1, dry), 8798 (1, stuffed), 8805 (1, left skin). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:128 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Johnius maculatus Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Druzhinin 1973:55 [ref. 41045]). •Valid as Nibea maculata (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Dutt & Thankam 1968:340 [ref. 41047], Trewavas 1977:376 [ref. 4459], Sasaki 1994:498 [ref. 22088], Talwar 1995:87 [ref. 25194], Sasaki 1996:89 [ref. 22156], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:38 [ref. 27712] with author as Schneider, Psomadakis et al. 2015:277 [ref. 34104], Lo et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35288], Ali et al. 2018:332 [ref. 36183], Eagderi et al. 2019:102 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 26 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2020:33 [ref. 37439], Psomadakis et al. 2020:492 [ref. 37272], Sasaki 2022:408 [ref. 39862]). Current status: Valid as Nibea maculata (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Vietnam. Habitat: marine.