crenidens, Sparus Forsskål [P. S.] 1775:xv [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea; Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea. Lectotype: ZMUC P 50551. Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:67 [ref. 9588], Fricke 2008:40 [ref. 30182]. Syntype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 5 [ref. 20847]. Lectotype selected by Iwatsuki & Maclaine 2013:245 [ref. 35123]. Authorshop see Fricke (2008:40 [ref. 30182]). •Valid as Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål 1775), subspecies crenidens -- (Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:222 [ref. 28072]). •Valid as Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål 1775) -- (Tortonese 1973:416 [ref. 7192], Dor 1984:159 [ref. 29757], Bauchot & Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:885 [ref. 13676], Smith & Smith 1986:585 [ref. 5710], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:848 [ref. 20764], Goren & Dor 1994:43 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:225 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:181 [ref. 23922], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:177 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:42 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2008:40 [ref. 30182], Iwatsuki & Maclaine 2013:245 [ref. 35123], Bogorodsky et al. 2017:[3] [ref. 35520], Ali et al. 2018:329 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:219 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:101 [ref. 36273], Suresh et al. 2018:246 [ref. 36495], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:50 [ref. 36892], Zajonz et al. 2019:79 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:141 [ref. 37515], Golani 2021:53 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:79 [ref. 39014], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2022:297 [ref. 39785], Zajonz et al. 2022:180 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål 1775). Sparidae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Gulf of Aden east to Socotra (Yemen) and Madagascar; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.