semifasciatus, Cynoglossus Day [F.] 1877:436, Pl. 97 (fig. 5) [The fishes of India Part 3; ref. 4886] Seas at Madras, India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: BMNH 1975.9.30.25 (1, dry), ZSI 2692 (1, figured specimen, caudal fin slightly damaged). Type catalog: Talwar & Chakrapany 1970:123 [ref. 35966], Whitehead & Talwar 1976:162 [ref. 23762]. Menon 1977:70 wrongly gives the holotype of semifasciatus as 1490 in error for brevirostris. •Valid as Cynoglossus semifasciatus Day 1877 -- (Menon 1977:70 [ref. 7071], Evseenko 1998:61 [ref. 23643], Seshappa 1999:133 [ref. 24252], Munroe in Randall & Lim 2000:646 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:48 [ref. 27712], Munroe 2022:379 [ref. 40234], Allen & Erdmann 2024:1365 [ref. 40796], Ummath et al. 2024:[11] [ref. 41632]). Current status: Valid as Cynoglossus semifasciatus Day 1877. Cynoglossidae: Cynoglossinae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: India and Sri Lanka east to Gulf of Thailand. Habitat: marine.