xanthonotus, Caesio Bleeker [P.] 1853:466 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 3); ref. 336] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): RMNH 5709 (205-mm TL specimen of 2). •Mention -- (Dor 1984:137 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Caesio xanthonotus Bleeker 1853 -- (Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:171 [ref. 6441]). •Valid as Caesio xanthonota Bleeker 1853 -- (Carpenter 1987:18 [ref. 6430], Carpenter 1988:45 [ref. 9296], Winterbottom et al. 1989:36 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:39 [ref. 25356], Randall 1994:264 [ref. 21644], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:xi [ref. 21953], Allen 1997:130 [ref. 23977], Fricke 1999:282 [ref. 24106], Carpenter 2001:2930 [ref. 26100], Allen & Adrim 2003:39 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:207 [ref. 28072], Fricke et al. 2009:63 [ref. 30213], Allen & Erdmann 2012:463 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:260 [ref. 32706], Holleman et al. 2013:268 [ref. 32876], Fricke et al. 2018:202 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:93 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:77 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 25 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:459 [ref. 37272], Mohanty et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38550], Carpenter & Holleman 2022:258 [ref. 39754]). Current status: Valid as Caesio xanthonota Bleeker 1853. Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion) east to Indonesia, including Cocos-Keeling Island and Christmas Island (Australia) Habitat: marine.