stridens, Sciaena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:50, xii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Neotype: HUJ 6708. Type catalog: Golani 2006:27 [ref. 28840], Fricke 2008:37 [ref. 30182]. Neotype designated by Iwatsuki et al. 1995:459 [ref. 21595]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:37 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Pomadasys stridens (Forsskål 1775) -- (Roux 1973:392 [ref. 7200], Dor 1984:152 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:173 [ref. 6441], Ben-Tuvia & McKay in Whitehead et al. 1986:863 [ref. 13676], Smith & McKay 1986:571 [ref. 5716], Goren & Dor 1994:42 [ref. 25356], Iwatsuki et al. 1995:457 [ref. 21595], Randall 1995:214 [ref. 22896], Serena & Silvestri 1996:409 [ref. 22784], Carpenter et al. 1997:179 [ref. 23922], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Iwatsuki et al. 1999:84 [ref. 23960], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:177 [ref. 26753], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:180, 193 [ref. 28072], Golani 2005:41 [ref. 37112], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:425 [ref. 33460], Psomadakis et al. 2015:259 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:327 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:210 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:98 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:111 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:71 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2019:171 [ref. 37021], Zajonz et al. 2019:78 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:128 [ref. 37515], Golani 2021:53 [ref. 38303], Damadi et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38698], Kovačić et al. 2021:69 [ref. 39014], Heemstra 2022:282 [ref. 39773], Zajonz et al. 2022:165 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Pomadasys stridens (Forsskål 1775). Haemulidae: Haemulinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen) and Madagascar east to west coast of India; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.