aneus, Johnius Bloch [M. E.] 1793:135, Pl. 357 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 7; ref. 4868] Malabar, India. Syntypes: ZMB 8726 (1, dry, lost). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:128 [ref. 24282]. Type information: Sasaki 1994:498 [ref. 22088]. Genus name on plate Iohnius. On p. 111 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 10 [ref. 21381]. RMNH 8798 regarded as holotype by Trewavas 1977:429 [ref. 4459]. The specific epithet is an indeclinable noun. •Valid as Johnius aneus Bloch 1793 -- (Trewavas 1977:437 [ref. 4459], Mishra et al. 1999:87 [ref. 25315]). •Valid as Johnieops aneus (Bloch 1793) -- (Talwar 1995:122 [ref. 25194]). •Valid as Argyrosomus aneus (Bloch 1793) -- (Chen et al. 1997:74 [ref. 26476]). •Valid as Pennahia aneus (Bloch 1793) [often seen as anea] -- (Sasaki 1994:498 [ref. 22088], Randall 1995:232 [ref. 22896], Sasaki 1996:11 [ref. 22111], Sasaki 1996:85 [ref. 22156], Carpenter et al. 1997:190 [ref. 23922], Yamada & Yamada 1999:97 [ref. 23757], Sasaki in Randall & Lim 2000:621 [ref. 25122], Sasaki 2001:3168 [ref. 26108], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Motomura 2009:172 [ref. 30446], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2015:64 [ref. 34319], Psomadakis et al. 2015:279 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:160 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:333 [ref. 36183], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:187 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:102 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 27 [ref. 38321] as anea, Parenti 2020:42 [ref. 37439] as anea, Psomadakis et al. 2020:495 [ref. 37272] as anea, Sasaki 2022:412 [ref. 39862] as anea). Current status: Valid as Pennahia aneus (Bloch 1793). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Philippines, north to northern Vietnam and southern China. Habitat: marine.