Species that contain: Parapercis and tetracantha [ 5 ] records

albidus, Labrus Shaw [G.] 1803:490 [General zoology or systematic natural history v. 4; ref. 4014] Indian Seas. No types known. •Same as Labrus tetracanthus Lacepède 1801 -- (P. Parenti, pers. comm.). •Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801). Current status: Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801). Pinguipedidae. Habitat: marine.

cancellata, Percis Cuvier [G.] 1816:300 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] No locality [Indian seas]. Type: MNHN A-3110 (1). On Lacepède 1800: pl. 13 (fig. 3). See also Cuvier 1829:153 (footnote 1) [ref. 995] and Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:268 [ref. 4879]. •Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801) -- (Cantwell 1964:271 [ref. 23974]). Current status: Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801). Pinguipedidae. Habitat: marine.

nipponensis, Parapercis Kamohara [T.] 1936:933 [English p. 929], Fig. 4 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 48 (no. 11); ref. 2550] Off Kochi Province in Shikoku, Japan. Holotype (unique): BSKU (lost). Type catalog: Kamohara 1961:1 [ref. 19282]. •Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801) -- (Cantwell 1964:271 [ref. 23974]). Current status: Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801). Pinguipedidae. Habitat: marine.

sebae, Bodianus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:335 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] No locality. Based on Seba, 1759: pl. 27 (fig. 16). •Synonym of Parapercis cylindrica (Bloch 1792) -- (Cantwell 1964:262 [ref. 23974]). •Synonym of Parapercis tetracanthus (Lacepède 1800) -- (Randall 2003:3 [ref. 27690]). Current status: Synonym of Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801). Pinguipedidae. Habitat: marine.

tetracanthus, Labrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:428, 473 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 3; ref. 2710] No locality. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-3109 (not found). Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:100 [ref. 19171]. Illustrated on Pl. 13 (fig. 3) of v. 2, 1800 [ref. 2709] but without caption. See Table on p. 9 of v. 3 for caption to figure. •Valid as Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801) -- (Cantwell 1964:271 [ref. 23974], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:291 [ref. 6441], Myers 1999:213 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268] as tetracanthus, Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:631 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1061 [ref. 25182], Randall 2001:3509 [ref. 26283] dated 1802, Nakabo 2002:1061 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:52 [ref. 26830], Imamura 2009:242 [ref. 30434], Motomura et al. 2010:181 [ref. 31256], Ho et al. 2014:342 [ref. 33332], Ho 2014:78 [ref. 33574], Fricke et al. 2014:144 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2015:27 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:83 [ref. 35333], Psomadakis et al. 2020:542 [ref. 37272]). Current status: Valid as Parapercis tetracantha (Lacepède 1801). Pinguipedidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Bay of Bengal (India), Myanmar and Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) east to Indonesia, north to southern Japan. Habitat: marine.