soldado, Holocentrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1802:344, 389 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 4; ref. 4929] "Cayenne" [erroneous, should be Indo-West Pacific]. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-7606 (1, dry) no locality. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:9 [ref. 6382], Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:11 [ref. 6382]. •Valid as Wak soldado (Lacepède 1802) -- (Druzhinin 1973:55 [ref. 41045]). •Valid as Pseudosciaena soldado (Lacepède 1802) -- (Allen & Coates 1990:88 [ref. 25561], Allen et al. 1992:301 [ref. 21400]). •Valid as Nibea soldado (Lacepède 1802) -- (Dutt & Thankam 1968:341 [ref. 41047], Trewavas 1977:378 [ref. 4459], Allen 1991:140 [ref. 21090], Kottelat et al. 1993:119 [ref. 23448], Talwar 1995:83 [ref. 25194], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:371 [ref. 27969], Sasaki 1996:89 [ref. 22156], Larson & Williams 1997:361 [ref. 23967], Johnson 1999:737 [ref. 25471], Sasaki in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122] as saldado, Iwatsuki et al. 2000:102 [ref. 26368], Sasaki 2001:3162 [ref. 26108], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Bray et al. 2006:1262 [ref. 29091], Motomura 2009:171 [ref. 30446], Larson et al. 2013:149 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:359 [ref. 32989], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2015:63 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:277 [ref. 34104], Miesen et al. 2016:90 [ref. 34492], Lo et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35288], Ali et al. 2018:333 [ref. 36183], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:186 [ref. 36460], Parenti 2020:33 [ref. 37439], Psomadakis et al. 2020:493 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:374 [ref. 39830], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:217 [ref. 41223], Sasaki 2022:408 [ref. 39862], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412]). Current status: Valid as Nibea soldado (Lacepède 1802). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan and India east to Philippines, north to northern Vietnam, south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.