indicus, Crenidens Day [F.] 1873:clxxxvi [Sea-fishes of India and Burma.; ref. 17372] Northern Indian Ocean. Lectotype: ZSI 1774. Paralectotypes: AMS B.8216 (1), RMNH 1038 (1), ZMB 8912, ZSI F1775-76 (2). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:145 [ref. 20743] with a holotype and paratypes, Whitehead & Talwar 1976:160 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:297-298 [ref. 25110]. •Synonym of Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:159 [ref. 29757], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:848 [ref. 20764]). •Synonym of Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål 1775), but a valid subspecies -- (Randall 1995:225 [ref. 22896], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377]). •Valid as Crenidens indicus Day 1873 -- (Iwatsuki & Maclaine 2013:245 [ref. 35123], Siddiqui at al. 2014:82 [ref. 33479], Psomadakis et al. 2015:262 [ref. 34104], Bogorodsky et al. 2017:[8] [ref. 35520], Jawad et al. 2018:112 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:114 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2019:50 [ref. 36892], Roul et al. 2020:[6] 1152 [ref. 38436], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2022:298 [ref. 39785]). Current status: Valid as Crenidens indicus Day 1873. Sparidae. Distribution: Red Sea; northern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to southern India; Nicobar Islands (India). Habitat: marine.