Species that contain: Johnius and grypotus [ 2 ] records

belengerii, Corvina Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:120 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Malabar, India. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-7613 (2, poor condition). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:7 [ref. 6382]. Spelled Belengerii by Cuvier; as Belangerii by Valenciennes 1832:358 [ref. 12986], collector was Bélanger [but misspelled Bélenger by Cuvier], emended as belangerii by Bauchot & Desoutter 1987. •Synonym of Johnius grypotus (Richardson 1846) -- (Choi et al. 2003:620 [ref. 26218]). •Valid as Johnius belangerii (Cuvier 1830) -- (Dutt & Thankam 1968:338 [ref. 41047] as belengerii, Trewavas 1977:413 [ref. 4459], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:161 [ref. 6441], Zheng 1989:319 [ref. 21202], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:856 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:119 [ref. 23448], Kottelat & Lim 1996:245 [ref. 23210], Randall 1995:230 [ref. 22896], Talwar 1995:103 [ref. 25194], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:367 [ref. 27969], Sasaki 1996:90 [ref. 22156], Carpenter et al. 1997:189 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:71 [ref. 26476] as belengerii, Cheng & Zhou 1997:293 [ref. 26385] as belengeri, Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:249 [ref. 24754], Johnson 1999:737 [ref. 25471], Sasaki in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Sasaki 2001:3141 [ref. 26108], Wang et al. 2001:238 [ref. 26566] as belengerii and authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:9 [ref. 27710], Bray et al. 2006:1260 [ref. 29091], Coad 2010:266 [ref. 36620], Iwatsuki et al. 2012:154 [ref. 31962] as belangeri, Kottelat 2013:358 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:274 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:331 [ref. 36183], Arshad in Kimura et al. 2018:183 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:253 [ref. 36495], Chao et al. 2019:268 [ref. 36884], Eagderi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 26 [ref. 38321], Parenti 2020:20 [ref. 37439], Psomadakis et al. 2020:489 [ref. 37272], Taki et al. 2021:376 [ref. 39830], Hanafi et al. 2022:407 [ref. 39120], Sasaki 2022:402 [ref. 39862], Hanafi et al. 2023:16 [ref. 40106]). Current status: Valid as Johnius belangerii (Cuvier 1830). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Indonesia and Vietnam, north to Taiwan and East China Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.

grypota, Corvina Richardson [J.] 1846:225 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 15th meeting [1845]; ref. 3742] Canton, China. No types known. Type information: Whitehead 1970:213 [ref. 11606]. Based on a Reeves drawing and Haslar Museum specimen. •Questionably a synonym of Johnius belangerii (Cuvier 1830) -- (Trewavas 1977:414, 448 [ref. 4459]). •Synonym of Johnius belangeri (Cuvier 1830) -- (Kottelat 2013:358 [ref. 32989] with question). •Valid as Johnius grypotus (Richardson 1846) -- (Sasaki 1990 [ref. 19079], Sasaki & Kailola 1991:122 [ref. 19082], Talwar 1995:104 [ref. 25194], Sasaki in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:867 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:867 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:347, 620 [ref. 26218], Zhao et al. 2017:143 [ref. 35617], Chao et al. 2019:268 [ref. 36884], Kim et al. 2020:137 [ref. 39118], Parenti 2020:22 [ref. 37439], Hanafi et al. 2023:20 [ref. 40106]). Current status: Valid as Johnius grypotus (Richardson 1846). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China and Taiwan north to Korea. Habitat: marine.