scaber, Cottus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:265 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] No locality [probably East Indies]. Holotype: NRM 24. Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:234 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Platycephalus scaber (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Mohsin & Ambak 1996:577 [ref. 27969], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710]). •Valid as Grammoplites scaber (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Shao & Chen 1987:82 [ref. 8042], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:782 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:103 [ref. 23448], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:220 [ref. 24016], Imamura & Amaoka 1994:177 [ref. 21442], Randall 1995:116 [ref. 22896], Imamura 1996:202 [ref. 22700], Imamura 1997:425 [ref. 23366], Carpenter et al. 1997:139 [ref. 23922], Knapp 1999:2400 [ref. 24807], Knapp in Randall & Lim 2000:608 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:185 [ref. 25703], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Yamakawa & Machida 2004:388 [ref. 28104], Imamura 2009:75 [ref. 30434], Kottelat 2013:317 [ref. 32989], Knapp & Imamura 2014:450 [ref. 33427], Imamura in Kimura et al. 2015:32 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:191 [ref. 34104], Miesen et al. 2016:88 [ref. 34492], Imamura in Kimura et al. 2018:86 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:126 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 29 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:374 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:129 [ref. 41223], Knapp 2022:584 [ref. 39727], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:565 [ref. 40712]). Current status: Valid as Grammoplites scaber (Linnaeus 1758). Platycephalidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Oman east to Philippines, north to Taiwan. Habitat: brackish, marine.