argentimaculata, Sciaena Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:47, xi [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [No locality stated] Red Sea. No types known. As argenti-maculata on p. xi. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:34 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål 1775) -- (Druzhinin 1973:54 [ref. 41045], Kyushin et al. 1977:74 [ref. 19756], Roberts 1978:59 [ref. 8886], Dor 1984:138 [ref. 29757], Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:169 [ref. 6441], Allen & Talbot 1985:18 [ref. 6491], Allen 1985:58 [ref. 6843], Allen 1986:323 [ref. 6208], Allen in Anderson 1986:574 [ref. 5634], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:240 [ref. 26639], Allen & Swainston 1988:78 [ref. 25477], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:524 [ref. 25598], Randall et al. 1990:178 [ref. 15987], Pethiyagoda 1991:219 [ref. 20075], Allen 1991:136 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:835 [ref. 20764], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:399 [ref. 23876], Kottelat et al. 1993:113 [ref. 23448], Kuiter 1993:186 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:37 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:197 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:272 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:359 [ref. 23967], Allen 1997:120 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:170 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:82 [ref. 26476], Randall et al. 1997:178 [ref. 25919], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Myers 1999:144 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:266 [ref. 24106], Mishra et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25315], Johnson 1999:735 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:821 [ref. 25086], Allen in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:66 [ref. 25191], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:243 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:115 [ref. 25480], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:100 [ref. 26368], Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:241 [ref. 27511], Sakai et al. 2001:97 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Anderson & Allen 2001:2862 [ref. 26099], Allen et al. 2002:341 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:821 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:626 [ref. 27495], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:87 [ref. 27510], Seegers et al. 2003:42 [ref. 28087], Randall et al. 2004:16 [ref. 27624], Tan & Lim 2004:110 [ref. 27716], Adrim et al. 2004:121 [ref. 27715], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:197 [ref. 28072], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:197 [ref. 28107], Randall 2005:244 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1197 [ref. 29090], Allen et al. 2008:133 [ref. 30265], Fricke 2008:34 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:60 [ref. 30213], Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:136 [ref. 31128], Motomura et al. 2010:118 [ref. 31256], Morgan et al. 2011:21 [ref. 31262], Allen & Erdmann 2012:444 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:259 [ref. 32706], Larson et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:341 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:84 [ref. 33932], Morgan et al. 2014:37 [ref. 36567], Psomadakis et al. 2015:241 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2015:24 [ref. 34709], Miesen et al. 2016:89 [ref. 34492], Koeda et al. 2016:39 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:128 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:325 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:194 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:90 [ref. 36273], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2018:150 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:226 [ref. 36495], Arndt & Fricke 2019:20 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:79 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:151 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:76 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:131 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 24 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:446 [ref. 37272], Golani 2021:52 [ref. 38303], Keith et al. 2021:70 [ref. 38257], Kovačić et al. 2021:72 [ref. 39014], Taki et al. 2021:363 [ref. 39830], Deidun et al. 2022:51 [ref. 39384], Dewa et al. 2022:19 [ref. 40001], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:185 [ref. 41223], Heemstra & Heemstra 2022:234 [ref. 39746], Zajonz et al. 2022:138 [ref. 40522], Ergüden et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40359], Jamandre 2023:172 [ref. 40455], Allen & Erdmann 2024:476 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål 1775). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Line Islands (Kiribati) and Society Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Greenough River (Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia), and Tonga; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.