haffara, Sparus Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:33, xi [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] No locality stated (Red Sea). No types known. Authorship follows Fricke 2008:42 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Rhabdosargus haffara (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:160 [ref. 29757], Goren & Dor 1994:44 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:227 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:182 [ref. 23922], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Golani 2005:45 [ref. 37112], Tanaka & Iwasuki 2013:2 [ref. 32775], Siddiqui at al. 2014:88 [ref. 33479], Psomadakis et al. 2015:263 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:329 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:221 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:101 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:113 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:115 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2019:86 [ref. 36892], Golani 2021:57 [ref. 38303]). •Valid as Rhabdosargus haffara (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:42 [ref. 30182], Kovačić et al. 2021:81 [ref. 39014], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2022:311 [ref. 39785]). Current status: Valid as Rhabdosargus haffara (Fabricius 1775). Sparidae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Madagascar to Persian Gulf; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.