Species that contain: Variola and albimarginata [ 1 ] records

albimarginata, Variola Baissac [J. de B.] 1953:214 [Proceedings of the Royal Society of Mauritius v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 12639] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): NHMI [Mus. Port Louis, Mauritius Inst.] (lost). Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:209 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Misspelled albomarginata in literature. •Valid as Variola albimarginata Baissac 1953 -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:126 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Randall 1986:536 [ref. 5667], Paxton et al. 1989:501 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:27 [ref. 13251], Lee 1990:62 [ref. 19830], Randall et al. 1990:119 [ref. 15987], Randall & Heemstra 1991:305 [ref. 19601], Manilo 1992:23 [132] [ref. 39140], Heemstra & Randall 1993:303 [ref. 21042], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:247 [ref. 27969], Randall et al. 1997:119 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:117 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:208 [ref. 24106], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2538 [ref. 24815], Nakabo 2000:709 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:611 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:98 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:30 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:709 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:32 [ref. 26830] as albomarginata, dated 1952, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S105 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:622 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:56 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:12 [ref. 27624] as albomarginata, Heemstra et al. 2004:3319 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:167 [ref. 28239], Randall et al. 2005:120 [ref. 28745], Hoese et al. 2006:1024 [ref. 28999], Fricke et al. 2009:49 [ref. 30213], Fricke et al. 2011:387 [ref. 31242], Motomura et al. 2010:101 [ref. 31256], Craig et al. 2011:352 [ref. 31786], Allen & Erdmann 2012:285 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:103 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:65 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2015:20 [ref. 34709], Koeda et al. 2016:29 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:92 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:158 [ref. 35805], Ma & Craig 2018:456 [ref. 36100], Fricke et al. 2019:126 [ref. 36673], Parenti & Randall 2020:94 [ref. 37354], Akhilesh et al. 2021:56 [ref. 38701], Durville et al. 2021:311 [ref. 38802], Dewa et al. 2022:17 [ref. 40001], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:145 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:77 [ref. 39742], Mochizuki et al. 2022:21 [ref. 39612], Allen & Erdmann 2024:303 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Variola albimarginata Baissac 1953. Epinephelidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Tanzania), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.