posteli, Epinephelus Fourmanoir [P.] & Crosnier [A.] 1964:18, Pl. 16 (fig. C) [Cahiers O. R. S. T. O. M. (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer) Série Océanographie No. 6 (1963); ref. 5568] Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. Syntypes: IRSMNB (3) probably lost. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:40 [ref. 19232]. •Valid as Mycteroperca posteli (Fourmanoir & Crosnier 1964) -- (Ma & Craig 2018:456 [ref. 36100]). •Valid as Epinephelus posteli Fourmanoir & Crosnier 1964 -- (Heemstra & Randall 1986:530 [ref. 5667], Randall & Heemstra 1991:237 [ref. 19601], Heemstra & Randall 1993:217 [ref. 21042], Craig et al. 2011:214 [ref. 31786], Fricke et al. 2018:153 [ref. 35805], Parenti & Randall 2020:78 [ref. 37354], Heemstra 2022:68 [ref. 39742]). Current status: Valid as Epinephelus posteli Fourmanoir & Crosnier 1964. Epinephelidae. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) north to southern Mozambique, east to southern Madagascar. Habitat: marine.