russelii, Umbrina Cuvier [G.] 1829:174 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Andaman Islands [Orig. locality: Vizagapatam, India]. Neotype: BMNH 1889.2.1.3087. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:26 [ref. 6382]. Available from footnote as, "Aj. Omb. [sic Umbrina] russelii, N. Russel, 118". Also see Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:178 [ref. 999] who used russelii. Neotype designated by Trewavas 1964:111. Named for Russell (misspelled as Russel), here not considered as an inadvertent error, therefore spelling russelii retained. •Valid as Dendrophysa russelli (Cuvier 1829) -- (Trewavas 1977:367 [ref. 4459], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:854 [ref. 20764], Zhong in Pan et al. 1991:382 [ref. 23876], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:227 [ref. 24016], Talwar 1995:72 [ref. 25194], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:366 [ref. 27969], Mishra et al. 1999:87 [ref. 25315], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703] in Dendrophis, Motomura 2009:170 [ref. 30446], Yoshida et al. 2013:154 [ref. 34464], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2015:62 [ref. 34319], Motomura in Kimura et al. 2018:182 [ref. 36460]). •Valid as Dendrophysa russellii (Cuvier 1829) -- (Sasaki 1996:89 [ref. 22156], Kottelat 2013:357 [ref. 32989], Taki et al. 2021:372 [ref. 39830]). •Valid as Dendrophysa russelii (Cuvier 1829) -- (Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Psomadakis et al. 2015:274 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:159 [ref. 35490], Suresh et al. 2018:251 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 26 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:489 [ref. 37272], Sasaki 2022:399 [ref. 39862], Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412]). Current status: Valid as Dendrophysa russelii (Cuvier 1829). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan and India east to eastern Indonesia and Philippines, north to northern Vietnam and southern China. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.