punctatus, Grammistes Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:504 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz Islands, southwestern Pacific; Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:42 [ref. 19232]. •Valid as Pogonoperca punctata (Valenciennes 1830) -- (Randall et al. 1971:177 [ref. 30341], Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:139 [ref. 6441], Anderson et al. 1998:23 [ref. 23611], Allen 1997:96 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:118 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:213 [ref. 24106], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2473 [ref. 24815], Allen 2000:87 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:730 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:610 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:194 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:12 [ref. 25806], Nakabo 2002:730 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:32 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:12 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:169 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:48 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:99 [ref. 31256], Randall & Schraml 2010:173 [ref. 40110], Fricke et al. 2011:386 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:306 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:64 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:28 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:157 [ref. 35805], Parenti & Randall 2020:96 [ref. 37354], Akhilesh et al. 2021:55 [ref. 38701], Durville et al. 2021:311 [ref. 38802], Allen & Erdmann 2024:325 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:75 [ref. 41255], Galbraith et al. 2024:6 [ref. 40930]). Current status: Valid as Pogonoperca punctata (Valenciennes 1830). Grammistidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Madagascar, Seychelles and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Line Islands (Kiribati), Marquesas Islands and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Coral Sea (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.