borbonicus, Lethrinus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:303 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Saint Denis, Réunion, western Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-9092 (1), 0000-9373 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1983:67 [ref. 21545]. •Synonym of Lethrinus mahsenoides Valenciennes 1830 -- (Sato 1978:38 [ref. 8884], Dor 1984:154 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Lethrinus borbonicus Valenciennes 1830 -- (Carpenter in Carpenter & Allen 1989:51 [ref. 13577], Goren & Dor 1994:42 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:219 [ref. 22896], Canter et al. 1997:183 [ref. 23922], Fricke 1999:297 [ref. 24106], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2009:66 [ref. 30213], Psomadakis et al. 2015:264 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:330 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:213 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:98 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:115 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:77 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:80 [ref. 36871], Carpenter 2022:319 [ref. 39786], Mehanna et al. 2022:691 [ref. 39427], Zajonz et al. 2022:185 [ref. 40522], Damadi et al. 2024:117 [ref. 41152]). Current status: Valid as Lethrinus borbonicus Valenciennes 1830. Lethrinidae: Lethrininae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf east to Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues). Habitat: marine.