assasi, Balistes Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:75, xiv [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:58 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Rhinecanthus assasi (Fabricius 1775) (author often seen as Forsskål) -- (Dor 1984:277 [ref. 29757], Matsuura & Shiobara 1989:375 [ref. 13563], Goren & Dor 1994:73 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:394 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:236 [ref. 23922], Myers 1999:283 [ref. 23965], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Fricke 2008:58 [ref. 30182], Matsuura 2014:7 [ref. 33576], Golani & Fricke 2018:178 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:134 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36871], Parenti 2021:658 [ref. 38921], Matsuura 2022:423 [ref. 40250], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:329 [ref. 39925]). Current status: Valid as Rhinecanthus assasi (Fabricius 1775). Balistidae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Socotra (Yemen), Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Pakistan. Habitat: marine.