microdon, Lethrinus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:295 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Northeastern Pulau Buru, Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9073. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1983:69 [ref. 21545]. •Valid as Lethrinella microdon (Valenciennes 1830) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:152 [ref. 19756], Dor 1984:152 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Lethrinus microdon Valenciennes 1830, after microdon selected over elongatus (described in same work) -- (Sato 1978:55 [ref. 8884], Kyushin et al. 1982:106 [ref. 19754], Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:180 [ref. 6441], Randall & Wheeler 1991:761 [ref. 15994], Carpenter in Carpenter & Allen 1989:71 [ref. 13577], Winterbottom et al. 1989:39 [ref. 13251], Mishra 1994:186 [ref. 24012], Goren & Dor 1994:42 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:220 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:331 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:134 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:184 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:90 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:174 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:155 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:299 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:865 [ref. 25086], Carpenter in Randall & Lim 2000:620 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:104 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:264 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Carpenter 2001:3035 [ref. 26105], Nakabo 2002:865 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:40 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1236 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:66 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:497 [ref. 31980], Psomadakis et al. 2015:265 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:47 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:156 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:330 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:215 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:99 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:78 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:171 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:477 [ref. 37272], Shibuya et al. 2021:66 [ref. 38503], Carpenter 2022:323 [ref. 39786], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:211 [ref. 41223], Mehanna et al. 2022:691 [ref. 39427], Zajonz et al. 2022:190 [ref. 40522], Allen & Erdmann 2024:527 [ref. 40796], Damadi et al. 2024:117 [ref. 41152]). Current status: Valid as Lethrinus microdon Valenciennes 1830. Lethrinidae: Lethrininae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Palau and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Kyushu (southern Japan), south to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.
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