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Species in the genus Pseudetroplus: [ 3 ] records

coruchi, Etroplus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:491, Pl. 136 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Malabar, India. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-8482 (5), 0000-8483 (2); SMF 1595 (1). Type catalog: Blanc 1962:209 [ref. 20868]. As Glyphisodon coruchi on the left and as Glyphisodon koruchi on the right of Plate 136. •Synonym of Etroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795) -- (Menon 1999:291 [ref. 24904]). •Synonym of Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795). Current status: Synonym of Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795). Cichlidae: Etroplinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

koruschi, Glyphisodon Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:no page number, Pl. 136 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Name on plate for species described in text as Etroplus coruchi on p. 491; the name on plate later emended by Cuvier 1830:491 [ref. 999] to Etroplus coruchi in footnote. See Etroplus coruchi Cuvier 1830. •Synonym of Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795). Current status: Synonym of Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795). Cichlidae: Etroplinae.

maculatus, Chaetodon Bloch [M. E.] 1795:104, Pl. 427 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 9; ref. 464] Coromandel, India [in error]. Lectotype: ZMB 2783. Paralectotypes: ZMB 33118 [ex ZMB 2783] (2). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:62-63 [ref. 24282]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Chaetodon maculatus Scopoli 1788, which is an unused senior synonym of Plectorhinchus picus (Cuvier 1830) [Haemulidae] -- P. Parenti, pers comm. 7/02. Chaetodon maculatus Scopoli 1788 was not used as valid after 1899; therefore reversal of precedence in favor of Chaetodon maculatus Boch 1795 (Art. 23.9) is followed. On p. 102 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 12 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Etroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795) -- (Herre 1946:178 [ref. 43209], Pethiyagoda 1991:232 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:885 [ref. 20764], Indra 1991:241 [ref. 24005], Indra 1993:188 [ref. 24009], Menon et al. 1993:146 [ref. 20877], Rema Devi & Ilango 1993:249 [ref. 24017], Indra 1994:422 [ref. 24015], Rema Devi et al. 1996:141 [ref. 24021], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:158 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:163 [ref. 24758], Menon 1999:291 [ref. 24904], Raju Thomas et al. 2000:444 [ref. 25319], Arunachalam et al. 2001:129 [ref. 25692], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:51 [ref. 26359], Sparks 2002:547 [ref. 26376], Sparks & Schelly 2011:57 [ref. 31173], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172]). •Valid as Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 2014:599 [ref. 33411], George et al. 2026:4 [ref. 43185]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Valid as Pseudetroplus maculatus (Bloch 1795). Cichlidae: Etroplinae. Distribution: South Asia: India and Sri Lanka. IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.