nigra, Sciaena Bloch [M. E.] 1792:35, Pl. 297 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 6; ref. 470] Mediterranean Sea and other localities. Syntypes: ZMB 8739 (1, stuffed). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:130 [ref. 24282] with ZMB 8739 as holotype. On p. 31 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 9 [ref. 21381]. Preoccupied by Sciaena nigra Forsskål 1775. Based on one specimen and several references, so ZMB 8739 probably should be selected as the lectotype if one is needed. •Synonym of Sciaena umbra Linnaeus 1758 -- (Trewavas 1973:396 [ref. 7201], Chao in Whitehead et al. 1986:871 [ref. 13676], Chao & Trewavas 1990:822 [ref. 18934], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:100 [ref. 26753], Parin 2003:S13 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:46 [ref. 37112], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:50 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:373 [ref. 33547], Chao in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2650 [ref. 34618], Parenti 2020:49 [ref. 37439]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Sciaena umbra Linnaeus 1758. Sciaenidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.