mahsena, Sciaena Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:xii, 52 [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Capta ad promontorium Djimûm] Ra’s Barīdī, NNW Yanbu’, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea 24°17'N 37°31'E. Lectotype: ZMUC P49346 (dry skin). Paralectotypes: ZMUC P49347 (1, dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:66 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:39 [ref. 30182]. Types figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 21 [ref. 20847]. Lectotype selected by Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:21 [ref. 20847]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:39 [ref. 30182]. Misspelled Sciaena masehna by Walbaum 1792:310, 715 [ref. 4572]. •Valid as Lethrinus mahsena (Forsskål 1775) -- (Sato 1978:25 [ref. 8884], Dor 1984:154 [ref. 29757], Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:180 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:598 [ref. 5712], Carpenter in Carpenter & Allen 1989:69 [ref. 13577], Winterbottom et al. 1989:39 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:198 [ref. 15987], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:286 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:42 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:220 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:331 [ref. 27969], Fricke 1999:299 [ref. 24106], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:270 [ref. 25191], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:244 [ref. 28072], Fricke et al. 2009:66 [ref. 30213], Motomura in Motomura & Shibukawa 2009:162 [ref. 31132], Fricke et al. 2018:215 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:99 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:78 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:80 [ref. 36871], Zajonz et al. 2022:189 [ref. 40522]). •Valid as Lethrinus mahsena (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:39 [ref. 30182], Carpenter 2022:322 [ref. 39786], Mehanna et al. 2022:691 [ref. 39427]). Current status: Valid as Lethrinus mahsena (Fabricius 1775). Lethrinidae: Lethrininae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles) Madagascar, Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues), Maldives, Chagos Archipelago and Sri Lanka. Habitat: marine.