poecilonotus, Serranus Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1843:6, Pl. 4A (fig. 1) [Fauna Japonica Part 1; ref. 4370] Nagasaki, Japan. Lectotype: RMNH D75 (dry). Paralectotypes: RMNH 176 (2). Original as poëcilonotus. Lectotype selected by Boeseman 1947:22 [ref. 12876]. •Valid as Mycteroperca poecilonota (Temminck & Schlegel 1843) -- (Ma & Craig 2018:456 [ref. 36100] as poecilonotus). •Valid as Epinephelus poecilonotus (Temminck & Schlegel 1843) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:202 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:179 [ref. 19754], Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:131 [ref. 6441], Heemstra & Randall 1986:530 [ref. 5667], Randall & Klausewitz 1986:234 [ref. 11513], Winterbottom et al. 1989:25 [ref. 13251], Lee 1990:51 [ref. 19830], Randall & Heemstra 1991:223 [ref. 19601], Heemstra & Randall 1993:211 [ref. 21042], Randall 1995:134 [ref. 22896], Fricke 1999:197 [ref. 24106], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2515 [ref. 24815], Nakabo 2000:716 [ref. 25086], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:610 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:30 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:716 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:310, 592 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S104 [ref. 27377], Fricke et al. 2009:47 [ref. 30213], Craig et al. 2011:205 [ref. 31786], Fricke et al. 2018:152 [ref. 35805], Zajonz et al. 2019:71 [ref. 36871], Johnson & Wilmer 2019:346 [ref. 36985], Kim et al. 2020:115 [ref. 39118], Parenti & Randall 2020:77 [ref. 37354], Sonoyama et al. 2020:55 [ref. 37637], Akhilesh et al. 2021:53 [ref. 38701], Heemstra 2022:66 [ref. 39742], Zajonz et al. 2022:86 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Epinephelus poecilonotus (Temminck & Schlegel 1843). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa (Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia), Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Fiji and Western Australia, north to southern Korea, central Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan). Habitat: brackish, marine.