sawakinensis, Branchiostegus Amirthalingam [C.] 1969:129, Fig. 1; Pls. 1-3 [Sudan Notes and Records. No. 50; ref. 15894] Suakin, Sudan, Red Sea. Holotype: BMNH 1969.3.12.1. Paratypes: BMNH 1969.3.12.2 (1). •Valid as Branchiostegus sawakinensis Amirthalingam 1969 -- (Dooley 1978:36 [ref. 5499], Kyushin et al. 1982:232 [ref. 19754], Dooley & Rau 1982:450 [ref. 21145], Dor 1984:120 [ref. 29757], Heemstra 1986:614 [ref. 5660], Dooley & Kailola 1988:251 [ref. 7299], Paxton et al. 1989:565 [ref. 12442], Baranes & Golani 1993:304 [ref. 22372], Goren & Dor 1994:32 [ref. 25356], Dooley 1999:2644 [ref. 24837], Dooley in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Paxton et al. 2006:1127 [ref. 28995], Dooley & Iwatsuki 2012:32 [ref. 31853], Hiramatsu & Yoshina 2012:41 [ref. 32026], Larson et al. 2013:116 [ref. 32988], Golani & Fricke 2018:80 [ref. 36273], Psomadakis et al. 2020:413 [ref. 37272], Dooley 2022:377 [ref. 39861]). Current status: Valid as Branchiostegus sawakinensis Amirthalingam 1969. Latilidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and East Africa east to Philippines, south to Western Australia and Northern Territory (Australia). Habitat: marine.