Species that contain: Lethrinus and rubrioperculatus [ 1 ] records

rubrioperculatus, Lethrinus Sato [T.] 1978:58, Pl. 12 (fig. A); Fig. 34 [Bulletin of the University Museum, University of Tokyo No. 15; ref. 8884] Naha fish market, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Holotype: ZUMT 53991. Paratypes: [some missing] BPBM 8557 (1); FAKU 33034 (1), 33047 (1); ?HUMZ A2428 (1), HUMZ A2434 (1); MIKU 1955 (1); RMNH 5754 (1); ZUMT 52525 (1), 52601 (1), 52614 (1), 52619 (1), 52623 (1), 52626-27 (2), 52685-93 (9), 52897 (1), 53996 (1). •Valid as Lethrinus rubrioperculatus Sato 1978 -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:109 [ref. 19754], Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:181 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:598 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:84 [ref. 25477], Carpenter in Carpenter & Allen 1989:83 [ref. 13577], Winterbottom et al. 1989:40 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:202 [ref. 15987], Allen 1997:132 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:202 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:156 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:300 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:866 [ref. 25086], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:142 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:14 [ref. 25806], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:101 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:264 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Carpenter 2001:3042 [ref. 26105], Nakabo 2002:866 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:40 [ref. 26830], Carpenter & Randall 2003:3 [ref. 26959], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:628 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:71 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:17 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:279 [ref. 28239], Randall et al. 2005:124 [ref. 28745], Allen et al. 2006:1238 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:67 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:126 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:500 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:142 [ref. 32988], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:47 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:158 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:216 [ref. 35805], Psomadakis et al. 2020:479 [ref. 37272], Allen et al. 2021:73 [ref. 38562], Durville et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38802], Shibuya et al. 2021:23 [ref. 38821], Carpenter 2022:325 [ref. 39786]). Current status: Valid as Lethrinus rubrioperculatus Sato 1978. Lethrinidae: Lethrininae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Wake Atoll, Marshall Islands and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.