semicinctus, Lethrinus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:294 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Bourou [? = Buru Island, Indonesia]. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9078. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1983:69 [ref. 21545]. •Valid as Lethrinus semicinctus Valenciennes 1830 -- (Sato 1978:60 [ref. 8884], Kyushin et al. 1982:1080 [ref. 19754], Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:181 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:84 [ref. 25477], Carpenter in Carpenter & Allen 1989:84 [ref. 13577], Randall et al. 1990:202 [ref. 15987], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:333 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:134 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:156 [ref. 23965], Nakabo 2000:866 [ref. 25086], Carpenter in Randall & Lim 2000:620 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Carpenter 2001:3043 [ref. 26105], Nakabo 2002:866 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:40 [ref. 26830], Carpenter & Randall 2003:2 [ref. 26959], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:101 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1239 [ref. 29090], Allen & Erdmann 2012:500 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:142 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2019:172 [ref. 36673], Ali in Motomura et al. 2021:37 [ref. 38121], Allen et al. 2021:72 [ref. 38562], Carpenter 2022:326 [ref. 39786], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:213 [ref. 41223], Piah et al. 2023:1039 [ref. 40395], Allen & Erdmann 2024:531 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Lethrinus semicinctus Valenciennes 1830. Lethrinidae: Lethrininae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Sri Lanka east to Marshall Islands and Fiji, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Habitat: marine.