suillus, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:335 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Coromandel coast of India, Pondicherry, Vizagapathum [Visakhapatnam], India. Syntypes: MNHN A-7710 (1, dry) Puducherry, 7288 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:36 [ref. 19232]. •Valid as Epinephelus suillus (Valenciennes 1828) -- (Heemstra & Randall 1986:532 [ref. 5667], Allen & Swainston 1988:58 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:498 [ref. 12442], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:491 [ref. 25598], Lee 1990:55 [ref. 19830]). •Synonym of Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton 1822) -- (Randall et al. 1990:106 [ref. 15987], Heemstra 1991:25 [ref. 19323], Randall & Heemstra 1991:122 [ref. 19601], Heemstra & Golani 1993:383 [ref. 22373], Heemstra & Randall 1993:130 [ref. 21042], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2493 [ref. 24815], Randall in Randall & Lim 2000:609 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:82 [ref. 25480], Randall 2005:155 [ref. 28239], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:328 [ref. 28867], Kottelat 2013:327 [ref. 32989], Parenti & Randall 2020:65 [ref. 37354], Heemstra 2022:53 [ref. 39742]). Current status: Synonym of Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton 1822). Epinephelidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.