harak, Sciaena Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:52, xii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] No locality stated (Red Sea). Lectotype: ZMUC P49348 (dry skin). Paralectotypes: ZMUC P49349 (1, dry skin, head missing). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:66 [ref. 9588], Authorship according to Fricke 2008:39 [ref. 30182]. Types figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 22 [ref. 20847]. Lectotype selected by Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:21 [ref. 20847]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:38 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Lethrinus harak (Forsskål 1775) -- (Sato 1978:15 [ref. 8884], Dor 1984:153 [ref. 29757], Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:179 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:597 [ref. 5712], Carpenter in Carpenter & Allen 1989:64 [ref. 13577], Randall et al. 1990:200 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:42 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:219 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:329 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:134 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:174 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:200 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:155 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:298 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:862 [ref. 25086], Carpenter in Randall & Lim 2000:620 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:269 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:104 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:101 [ref. 26368], Matsuura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:248 [ref. 27511], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Carpenter 2001:3032 [ref. 26105], Nakabo 2002:862 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:40 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:628 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:17 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Choi & Kim 2004:83 [ref. 27749], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:245 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:276 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1235 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:66 [ref. 30213], Motomura in Motomura & Shibukawa 2009:162 [ref. 31132], Motomura et al. 2010:126 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:496 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:350 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:93 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:265 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:47 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:156 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:214 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:98 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:20 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:171 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:80 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:476 [ref. 37272], Zajonz et al. 2022:187 [ref. 40522], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). •Valid as Lethrinus harak (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:38 [ref. 30182], Carpenter 2022:321 [ref. 39786], Mehanna et al. 2022:691 [ref. 39427]). Current status: Valid as Lethrinus harak (Fabricius 1775). Lethrinidae: Lethrininae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.