canariensis, Umbrina Valenciennes [A.] 1843:24 [Ichthyologie des îles Canaries v. 2 (pt 2); ref. 4502] Canary Islands. Syntypes: MNHN A-5669 (1, dry), 7608 (1, dry). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:18 [ref. 6382], Hutchings & Griffiths 2005:5 [ref. 40362]. •Valid as Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes 1843 -- (Trewavas 1973:401 [ref. 7201], Trewavas 1977:279 [ref. 4459], Chao in Whitehead et al. 1986:872 [ref. 13676], Heemstra 1986:619 [ref. 5660], Chao & Trewavas 1990:823 [ref. 18934], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:165 [ref. 25472], Talwar 1995:12 [ref. 25194], Randall 1995:233 [ref. 22896], Sasaki 1996:83 [ref. 22156], Fricke 1999:304 [ref. 24106], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:273 [ref. 28072], Hutchings & Griffiths 2005:5 [ref. 40362], Bañon et al. 2010:18 [ref. 31029], Wirtz et al. 2013:127 [ref. 32972] doubtful record, Psomadakis et al. 2015:280 [ref. 34104], Chao in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2651 [ref. 34618], Fricke et al. 2018:224 [ref. 35805], Carneiro et al. 2019:276 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:225 [ref. 38139], Parenti 2020:54 [ref. 37439], Bañón & Maño 2021:87 [ref. 38887], Kovačić et al. 2021:75 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:284 [ref. 39448], Sasaki 2022:412 [ref. 39862]). Current status: Valid as Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes 1843. Sciaenidae. Distribution: Southern Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay to Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), including Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), ?Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Principe; western Indian Ocean: South Africa, Madagascar and Réunion (Mascarenes) east to Pakistan. Habitat: marine.