suppositus, Platycephalus Troschel [F. H.] 1840:269 [Archiv für Naturgeschichte v. 6 (pt. 1); ref. 17930] No locality stated [Mumbay, India]. Syntypes: ZMB 727 [ex MNHN] (1) Bombay [Mumbai], 728 (2). Type catalog: Paepke & Fricke 1992:279 [ref. 19946]. •Valid as Grammoplites suppositus (Troschel 1840) -- (Knapp 1979:52 [ref. 14196], Dor 1984:90 [ref. 29757], Imamura & Amaoka 1994:177 [ref. 21442], Goren & Dor 1994:23 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:116 [ref. 22896], Imamura 1996:202 [ref. 22700], Carpenter et al. 1997:140 [ref. 23922], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:242 [ref. 24754], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S103 [ref. 27377], Yamakawa & Machida 2004:388 [ref. 28104], Knapp & Imamura 2014:450 [ref. 33427], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:415 [ref. 33460], Psomadakis et al. 2015:191 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:317 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:58 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:126 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 29 [ref. 38321] misidentified, Knapp 2022:585 [ref. 39727], Moazzam & Osmany 2023:566 [ref. 40712]). Current status: Valid as Grammoplites suppositus (Troschel 1840). Platycephalidae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia, Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf east to Sri Lanka and east coast of India. Habitat: marine.