punctatissimus, Stromateus Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1845:121, Pl. 65 [Fauna Japonica Parts 7-9; ref. 4373] Bay of Nagasaki, Japan. Syntypes: ?RMNH D889-890 (2, stuffed). Type catalog: Boeseman 1947:106 [ref. 12876]. •Probable synonym of Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen 1788) -- (Haedrich 1967:112 [ref. 5357]). •Synonym of Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen 1788) -- (Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:334 [ref. 7348], Parin 2003:S32 [ref. 28536]). •Valid as Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845) -- (Liu & Li 1998:282 [ref. 24168], Nakabo 2000:961 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:000 [ref. 26193], Liu et al. 2002:242 [ref. 26592], Poltev & Zakharov 2012:654 [ref. 32481], Liu & Li 2013:889 [ref. 32963], Parin et al. 2014:521 [ref. 33547], Jawad & Jig 2016:9 [ref. 34344], Yin et al. 2019:1 [ref. 36946], Kim et al. 2020:187 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:84 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:33 [ref. 38804], Roul et al. 2021:16 [ref. 38969], Wei et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38831], Fan et al. 2022:3 [ref. 39088], Wei et al. 2022:6 [ref. 40517]). Current status: Valid as Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845). Stromateidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: South China Sea north to Bohai Sea, Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: marine.