bifasciatus, Chaetodon Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:64, xiii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ZMUC-P50557 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:67 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:40 [ref. 30182]. Holotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 35 [ref. 20847]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:40 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Neosparus bifasciatus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Akazaki 1994:327 [ref. 23561], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377]). •Valid as Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:157 [ref. 29757], Smith & Smith 1986:581 [ref. 5710], Goren & Dor 1994:43 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:223 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:180 [ref. 23922], Fricke 1999:291 [ref. 24106], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:211 [ref. 28072], Kume & Yoshino 2008:53 [ref. 29572], Fricke et al. 2009:65 [ref. 30213], Iwatsuki & Carpenter 2009:44 [ref. 30528], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2010:134 [ref. 30738], Iwatsuki et al. 2010:115 [ref. 31106], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2011:39 [ref. 31505], Fricke et al. 2013:260 [ref. 32706], Kottelat 2013:442 [ref. 32989], Iwatsuki 2013:87 [ref. 32744], Ben Souissi et al. 2014:437 [ref. 41553], Ali et al. 2018:328 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:100 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:111 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:112 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2019:68 [ref. 36892], Zajonz et al. 2019:79 [ref. 36871], Şensurat-Genç et al. 2020:97 [ref. 37350], Kovačić et al. 2021:78 [ref. 39014], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2022:288 [ref. 39785], Saad et al. 2022:15 [ref. 39431], Zajonz et al. 2022:177 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål 1775). Sparidae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persan Gulf, Socotra (Yemen) and Mozambique Channel east to Pakistan; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.