erythrourus, Sparus Bloch [M. E.] 1791:26, Pl. 261 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 5; ref. 4867] Japan [probably erroneous]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 8596 (right skin). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:82 [ref. 24282]. On p. 23 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 8 [ref. 21381]. Type locality given as Japan, but possibly type is from the region of Madras, India (see Iwatsuki et al. 1998:170 [ref. 23310]). •Synonym of Gerres oyena (Forsskål 1775) -- (Iwatsuki et al. 1999:391 [ref. 24200]). •Valid as Gerres erythrourus (Bloch 1791) -- (Iwatsuki et al. 1998:165 [ref. 23310], Myers 1999:149 [ref. 23965], Nakabo 2000:837 [ref. 25086] with genus as Gertes, Iwatsuki et al. 2000:101 [ref. 26368], Iwatsuki et al. 2001:164 [ref. 25128], Iwatsuki et al. 2001:307 [ref. 25549], Sakai et al. 2001:99 [ref. 25693], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2001:1047 [ref. 25822], Nakabo 2002:837 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:39 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Chakraborty et al. 2006:185 [ref. 28690], Iwatsuki & Heemstra 2007:85 [ref. 29037], Hoese & Bray 2006:1213 [ref. 29000], Kimura in Kimura & Iwatsuki 2009:148 [ref. 31129], Liu & Yan 2009:557 [ref. 31089], Allen & Erdmann 2012:468 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:135 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:345 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:139 [ref. 34464], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2015:52 [ref. 34319], Motomura et al. 2017:140 [ref. 35490], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:160 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:234 [ref. 36495], Fricke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 20 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:463 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:387 [ref. 39830], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:203 [ref. 41223], Wada et al. 2022:129 [ref. 39645], Allen & Erdmann 2024:496 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Gerres erythrourus (Bloch 1791). Gerreidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India, Bangladesh and Myanmar east to Micronesia and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.