crocea, Sciaena Richardson [J.] 1846:224 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Canton, China. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1968.3.11.9. Type information: Whitehead 1970:214 [ref. 11606]. Trewavas 1977:392 [ref. 4459] treats BMNH 1968.3.11.9 as the neotype (probable holotype). •Valid as Pseudosciaena crocea (Richardson 1846) -- (Trewavas 1977:392 [ref. 4459], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:162 [ref. 6441], Chen et al. 1997:75 [ref. 26476], Cheng & Zhou 1997:285 [ref. 26385], Choi et al. 2003:347, 621 [ref. 26218]). •Valid as Larimichthys crocea (Richardson 1846) -- (Sasaki in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:870 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:870 [ref. 26193], Seah et al. 2015:280 [ref. 33796], Arshad in Kimura et al. 2018:185 [ref. 36460] as croceus, Kim et al. 2020:137 [ref. 39118], Parenti 2020:24 [ref. 37439]). Current status: Valid as Larimichthys crocea (Richardson 1846). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.