erythrurus, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:320 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Malabar region, India. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-7545. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:28 [ref. 19232]. •Valid as Epinephelus erythrurus (Valenciennes 1828) -- (Randall & Heemstra 1991:142 [ref. 19601], Heemstra & Randall 1993:146 [ref. 21042], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2543 [ref. 24815], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:609 [ref. 25122], Allen & Adrim 2003:31 [ref. 26830] as erythrourus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S104 [ref. 27377], Motomura in Motomura & Satapoomin 2009:88 [ref. 30492], Craig et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31786], Allen & Erdmann 2012:271 [ref. 31980], Psomadakis et al. 2015:197 [ref. 34104], Ma & Craig 2018:455 [ref. 36100], Zajonz et al. 2019:70 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 21 [ref. 38321], Parenti & Randall 2020:67 [ref. 37354], Psomadakis et al. 2020:389 [ref. 37272], Ray & Mohapatra 2020:112 [ref. 37300], Akhilesh et al. 2021:51 [ref. 38701], Heemstra 2022:55 [ref. 39742], Saha et al. 2022:[4] [ref. 39613], Hasan et al. 2023:2210 [ref. 40412], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:671 [ref. 40722]). Current status: Valid as Epinephelus erythrurus (Valenciennes 1828). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Socotra (Yemen), Lakshadweep Islands (India) and Pakistan east to Gulf of Thailand and Indonesia. Habitat: brackish, marine.