obtusata, Sphyraena Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:350 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 3; ref. 4879] Puducherry, India. Lectotype: MNHN A-5486. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-9600 (2) Port Jackson, A-3530 (1) Réunion, A-3531 (1) Malabar, B-1878 (1) Réunion. Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1971:677 [ref. 21541]. Lectotype selected by Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005:141 [ref. 28229]. •Possible synonym (in part) of Sphyraena chrysotaenia Klunzinger 1884 -- (de Sylva & Williams 1986:723 [ref. 6301]). •Possible synonym (in part) of Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell 1838 -- (de Sylva & Williams 1986:724 [ref. 6301], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377]). •Synonym in part of Sphyraena acutipinnis Day 1876 -- (Fricke 1999:555 [ref. 24106]). •Valid as Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829 -- (de Sylva 1975:83 [ref. 6302], Dor 1984:194 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:121 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:110 [ref. 25477], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:230 [ref. 24016], Kuiter 1993:265 [ref. 23929], Gomon et al. 1994:667 [ref. 22532], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:368 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:197 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:176 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:221 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:36 [ref. 26476], Myers 1999:277 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:556 [ref. 24106], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:251 [ref. 24754], Mishra et al. 1999:87 [ref. 25315], Johnson 1999:743 [ref. 25471], Senou in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Senou 2001:3695 [ref. 26303], Choi et al. 2003:416, 670 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:63 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495], Parin 2003:S25 [ref. 28536], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:373 [ref. 28072], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005:137 [ref. 28229], Bray & Hoese 2006:1751 [ref. 29049], Vasil'eva 2007:175 [ref. 30517], Gomon 2008:774, 776 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:110 [ref. 30213], Kimura in Matsuura & Kimura 2009:309 [ref. 31170], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1039 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:214 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:446 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:201 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:187 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:310 [ref. 34104], Miesen et al. 2016:95 [ref. 34492], Motomura et al. 2017:208 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:340 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:359 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:121 [ref. 36273], Suresh et al. 2018:307 [ref. 36495], Ballen 2019:402 [ref. 37027], Eagderi et al. 2019:116 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:308 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:108 [ref. 36871] as cf. obtusata, Bogorodsky et al. 2020:533 [ref. 38001], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 17 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:565 [ref. 37272], Kovačić et al. 2021:51 [ref. 39014], Doiuchi & Nakabo 2022:250 [ref. 40160], Zajonz et al. 2022:240 [ref. 40522], Vilasri et al. 2023:93 [ref. 40764], Allen & Erdmann 2024:1197 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829. Sphyraenidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Samoa, north to southern Japan and Korea, south to Lord Howe Islands and New Caledonia. IUCN (2024): Least Concern. Habitat: brackish, marine.