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bengalensis, Holocentrus Bloch [M. E.] 1790:102, Pl. 246 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 4; ref. 469] Bengalen [Bengal, Bay of Bengal, eastern Indian Ocean]. Lectotype: ZMB 303. Paralectotypes (?): ZMB 300 (1), 33057 (1, right skin). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:97 [ref. 24282]. On p. 82 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 7 [ref. 21381]. Lectotype selected by Paepke 1999:97 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Lutjanus bengalensis (Bloch 1790) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:68 [ref. 19756], Dor 1984:138 [ref. 29757], Allen & Talbot 1985:21 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:61 [ref. 6843], Goren & Dor 1994:37 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:197 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:124 [ref. 23977], Iwatsuki et al. 1999:314 [ref. 23961], Fricke 1999:266 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:820 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:100 [ref. 26368], Anderson & Allen 2001:2863 [ref. 26099], Nakabo 2002:820 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:87 [ref. 27510], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:201 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:248 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:60 [ref. 30213], Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:136 [ref. 31128], Motomura et al. 2010:118 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:445 [ref. 31980], Koeda et al. 2014:1 [ref. 35337], Iwatsuki et al. 2015:38 [ref. 34089], Psomadakis et al. 2015:241 [ref. 34104], Iwatsuki et al. 2016:526 [ref. 34361], Motomura et al. 2017:129 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:194 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:92 [ref. 36273], Psomadakis et al. 2020:447 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:185 [ref. 41223], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:235 [ref. 39746], Allen & Erdmann 2024:476 [ref. 40796], Negoro & Motomura 2024:6 [ref. 41284], Moazzam & Osmany 2025:338 [ref. 42148]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus bengalensis (Bloch 1790). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: India and Myanmar east to Indonesia and Philippines, north to southern Hokkaido (Japan), south to northern Western Australia and Queensland (Australia). IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Replaced in the western Indian Ocean by L. octolineatus (Cuvier 1828), and in the northwestern Indian Ocean and Red Sea by L. sapphirolineatus Iwatsuki, Al-Mamry & Heemstra 2016 [see ref. 34361]. Habitat: marine.

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