pictus, Hapalogenys Tortonese [E.] 1936:1, Pl. 1 [Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. (Ser. 3) v. 45 (1935-36) (no. 67); ref. 10280] Bender Abbas, Hormuz Strait, Iran. Holotype (unique): MZUT 2722. Type catalog: Tortonese 1940:143 [ref. 21559]. Secondarily preoccupied in Plectorhinchus by Perca picta Thunberg 1792. Replaced by Plectorhinchus fangi Whitley 1951 when Perca picta Thunberg 1792 is classified in genus Plectorhinchus. •Valid as Plectorhinchus pictus (Tortonese 1936) -- (Randall 1995:210 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:177 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:106 [ref. 26476] as Plectorhynchus, Randall et al. 1997:194 [ref. 25919], Satapoomin & Randall 2000:15 [ref. 25341], McKay 2001:2978 [ref. 26103], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3320 [ref. 27945], Motomura et al. 2010:123 [ref. 31256] with author as Cuvier 1828, Allen & Erdmann 2012:476 [ref. 31980] with author as Cuvier, Jawad et al. 2014:21 [ref. 33531], Psomadakis et al. 2015:255 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:327 [ref. 36183], Jawad et al. 2018:110 [ref. 36262], Eagderi et al. 2019:69 [ref. 37020], Parenti 2019:182 [ref. 37021], Zajonz et al. 2019:79 [ref. 36871], Heemstra 2022:274 [ref. 39773], Zajonz et al. 2022:171 [ref. 40522], Damadi et al. 2023:142 [ref. 40426], Damadi et al. 2024:[7] [ref. 40918]). Current status: Valid as Plectorhinchus pictus (Tortonese 1936). Haemulidae: Plectorhinchinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Micronesia and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.