Species that contain: Mulloidichthys and vanicolensis [ 4 ] records

auriflamma, Mullus Forsskål [P. S.] 1775:30, x [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ZMUC P49343 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:66 [ref. 9588]. Holotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:Pl. 4 [ref. 20847]. Forsskål's auriflamma was placed on the Official Index in Opinion 846. •Valid as Mulloidichthys auriflamma (Forsskål 1775) -- (Lachner 1960:42 [ref. 23973], Chen et al. 1997:108 [ref. 26476], Fricke et al. 2009:68 [ref. 30213]). •Synonym of Parupeneus macronema (Lacepède 1801) -- (Lachner 1960:11 [ref. 23973]). •Wrongly In the synonymy of Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Randall 2005:293 [ref. 28239]). •In the synonymy of Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé 1976) -- (Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984:162 [ref. 29757], Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988:6 [ref. 12819], Randall 2004:28 [ref. 28086], Fricke 2008:43 [ref. 30182], Golani & Fricke 2018:103 [ref. 36273]). Suppressed. Current status: Synonym of Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé 1976). Mullidae. Habitat: marine.

erythrinus, Mulloides Klunzinger [C. B.] 1884:50 [Die Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 2625] Red Sea. New name for Mulloides ruber Klunzinger 1870. •Synonym of Mulloides vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Dor & Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984:161 [ref. 29757], Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988:3 [ref. 12819]). •Synonym of Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Randall 2001:3183 [ref. 26109], Mundy 2005:389 [ref. 28379]). Current status: Synonym of Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831). Mullidae. Habitat: marine.

ruber, Mulloides Klunzinger [C. B.] 1870:743 [Verhandlungen der K.-K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien v. 20; ref. 2621] Red Sea. Syntypes: ?BMNH 1873.8.1.6 [ex MGH] (1) [Tahiti]; MNH 78711 (2); SMNS 24575 (skull, not found, probably lost), SMNS 2061 (2), ZIN 2523 (1), ZMB 7982 (1). Type catalog: Fricke 1992:14 [ref. 20296], Fricke 2005:49 [ref. 29864]. •Synonym of Mulloides vanicolensis Valenciennes 1831 -- (Dor & Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984:161 [ref. 29757], Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988:3 [ref. 12819]). •Synonym of Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Golani & Fricke 2018:102 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Synonym of Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831). Mullidae. Habitat: marine.

vanicolensis, Upeneus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831:521 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 7; ref. 4881] Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz Islands, southwestern Pacific. Syntypes: MNHN A-3520 (2), A-3521 (2), B-2352 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1985:9 [ref. 20735]. •Valid as Mulloides vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Dor & Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984:161 [ref. 29757], Ben-Tuvia 1986:611 [ref. 5641], Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988:3 [ref. 12819], Pequeño 1989:62 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:191 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:40 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:209 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:44 [ref. 25356], Larson & Williams 1997:361 [ref. 23967], Allen 2000:89 [ref. 37268]). •Valid as Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831) -- (Lachner 1960:44 [ref. 23973], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:164 [ref. 6441], Kuiter 1993:201 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:162 [ref. 25479], Stepien et al. 1994:44 [ref. 21179], Randall 1995:239 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:140 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:194 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:209 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:25 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:159 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:309 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:16 [ref. 25829], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:622 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:874 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:280 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:15 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:104 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:264 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:35 [ref. 25847], Randall 2001:3183 [ref. 26109], Kim 2002:62 [ref. 26347], Nakabo 2002:874 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:41 [ref. 26830], Randall 2003:1656 [ref. 27098], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S111 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:629 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:110 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:72 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:17 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3322 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:261 [ref. 28072], Love et al. 2005:129 [ref. 37547], Randall 2005:293 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:388 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Bray 2006:1265 [ref. 29000], Randall 2007:262 [ref. 30952], Imamura in Imamura et al. 2009:173 [ref. 31157], Caratini & Soriano 2011:119 [ref. 39915], Uiblein 2011:63 [ref. 31259], Allen & Erdmann 2012:504 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:261 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:150 [ref. 32988], Bos 2014:752 [ref. 33550], Fricke et al. 2014:95 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:114 [ref. 36167], Psomadakis et al. 2015:283 [ref. 34104], Stewart 2015:1290 [ref. 34196], Koeda et al. 2016:49 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:1 [ref. 35369], Fricke et al. 2018:224 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:102 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:116 [ref. 36262], Arndt & Fricke 2019:22 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:164 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:174 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:81 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 20 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:501 [ref. 37272], Durville et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38802], Love et al. 2021:168 [ref. 39279], Echreshavi et al. 2022:5 [ref. 39234], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:11 [ref. 39607], Uiblein & Randall 2022:357 [ref. 39855], Zajonz et al. 2022:206 [ref. 40522], Page et al. 2023:119 [ref. 40505], Zajonz et al. 2023:32 [ref. 40906]). Current status: Valid as Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831). Mullidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Mozambique Channel, Socotra (Yemen), Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Line Islands (Kiribati) and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), Norfolk Island (Australia), New Caledonia, Kermadec Islands, Tonga and Gambier Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.