hexodon, Dentex Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1824:301 [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 3574] Timor Island, southern Malay Archipelago. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9039. Type catalog: Bauchot & Daget 1972:83 [ref. 20898], Bauchot et al. 1983:6 [ref. 11366]. •Valid as Nemipterus hexodon (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:88 [ref. 19754], Allen & Swainston 1988:86 [ref. 25477], Russell 1990:37 [ref. 19228], Russell 1993:301 [ref. 13441], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:306 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:136 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:95 [ref. 26476], Johnson 1999:736 [ref. 25471], Russell in Randall & Lim 2000:620 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:101 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Russell 2001:3066 [ref. 26106], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:102 [ref. 27510], Allen et al. 2006:1243 [ref. 29090], Allen et al. 2006:1243 [ref. 29090], Barman & Mishra 2009:9 [ref. 37652], Motomura in Shibukawa & Motomura 2009:157 [ref. 31131], Larson et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:144 [ref. 34464], Ning et al. 2015:5 [ref. 35427], Russell & Ho 2017:287 [ref. 35134], Motomura et al. 2017:146 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2019:165 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:480 [ref. 37272], Muto in Motomura et al. 2021:34 [ref. 38121], Bangchongmanee et al. 2023:65 [ref. 40682], Vilasri et al. 2023:89 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Nemipterus hexodon (Quoy & Gaimard 1824). Nemipteridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Myanmar and Andaman Sea east to New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Solomon Islands, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.