regia, Perca Asso y del Rio [I. J. de] 1801:42, Pl. 35 (fig. 3) [Anales de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. v. 4 (no. 10); ref. 6523] La Rochelle, Département de la Charente-Maritime, France, Bay of Biscay, Northeastern Atlantic. Neotype: MNHN 0000-7511. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:6 [ref. 6382]. Neotype designated by Trewavas 1966:4 [ref. 21252] -- see ICZN Opinion 988. •Valid as Argyrosomus regius (Asso y del Rio 1801) -- (Trewavas 1973:397 [ref. 7201], Trewavas 1977:324 [ref. 4459], Dor 1984:169 [ref. 29757], Chao in Whitehead et al. 1986:867 [ref. 13676], Chao & Trewavas 1990:814 [ref. 18934], Goren & Dor 1994:44 [ref. 25356], Sasaki 1996:86 [ref. 22156], Griffiths & Heemstra 1995:8 [ref. 22038], Arruda 1997:88 [ref. 24952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:100 [ref. 26753], Falcón et al. 2003:145 [ref. 39343], Parin 2003:S13 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:46 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:26 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:90 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:108 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:50 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:372 [ref. 33547], Chao in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2639 [ref. 34618], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:102 [ref. 36273], Martins & Carneiro 2018:163 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:557 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:275 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:80 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:39 [ref. 37519], Parenti 2020:5 [ref. 37439], Bañón & Maño 2021:87 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:58 [ref. 38303], Iglésias et al. 2021:178 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:75 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:283 [ref. 39448], Sasaki 2022:394 [ref. 39862]). Current status: Valid as Argyrosomus regius (Asso y del Rio 1801). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Democratic Republic of Congo, including Madeira (Portugal); Red Sea (Mediterranean Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.